More dysentery also.. like a LOT more dysentery. So much so that people often believed their soul exists in their lower abdomen because when you feel pain there you die shortly after.

Wow that's a lot of dysentery.

Sorry your point lacks proper context based on reality.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

So you're not really a serf if you've got plumbing? The labor relationship with your employers isn't the issue?

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

That's really a western Europe thing and American thing. Even then no where near as much as you're suggesting, not for the last 10k years or so at least. Beer/wine taking over and replacing water drinking unironically eliminated most of that, and in other cultures sanitation prevented it. English serfs had a lot of dysentery though, since they were too stupid to use Roman infrastructure.