Careful with the wistful thinking

I had a conversation like that. When I was explaining to a friend of mine how they managed to build skyscrapers quicker in the 20s. "Because there were less laws and regulations and people died". He said, "well those were only the builders, the people on top were wise and had it made, that's where I would be". We were working on the factory floor at a heavy industry factory in our early 30s at the time. I don't think I have to mention he's a right winger.

Why not on the dealing end of a Gothic charge?

I’m a fan of that fire fox shield

I think I'd rather be shot or droned in today's warfare than stabbed to death like in ancient times.

Hey man, my family has noble Scottish heritage!

(Nevermind they lost a battle and the castle eroded into a hillside, then many of the clan became labourers – if we go back to before 1548, we’d be important!) That’s a true story by the way. And my great uncle was Secretary of State and Postmaster General in the US, for all the good that does me (none).

e: or we could all go back to when many of us were related to the Great Khan. So pick your year, commensurate with how important you want to feel based on heritage. It’s all bullshit.

Are we talking big tiddy Goths, or stab-you-dead-and-sack-Rome Goths?

What was the percentage of people dying in wars though?

I wouldn't have been a noble, but i would do peasant revolt!!(and probably die)

I had the same thought. When I was like 8 and -still at the same age- realised that I'd probably be what I actually am.

It’s always them imagining a time in which they can place themselves in a position of power or control while completely ignoring or being ignorant of the negatives.

I’d be a medieval lord! …while ignoring plague and other untreatable diseases, dying of a minor injury that got out of hand, lack of medicine, no dentistry or incredibly painful attempts at it, odds many of your kids will die or your wife will during childbirth, wild superstitions, wars, manual labor, etc. Ah, the good old days.

I don't believe in any god. But if I were to live in the past I think I 100% try to become a monk.

Damn, I would still manage to be single and catch the plague

They have read about history and think they have figured out what to do then to succeed. That frees them from feeling trapped now because they haven't figured out what to do now to be successful. It's funny because everybody else knows that the answer is to seize the means of production.