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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2821092, member: 76194&quot;]PS: If any As for a glass of mediocre wine sounds expensive if you are a laborer making 10 As a day, that&#039;s because it was. You&#039;d probably spend 40% of your monthly income in food, and most of the rest in rent.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;d have little left at the end of each month, and clothes were also expensive, so you&#039;d wear your one or two tunics for several years until they started to fall apart before buying another. Fortunately since you didn&#039;t live in a mass consumer society, your household wares such as glasses, cups, home furniture, etc, were designed to last you a whole lifetime. You&#039;d slowly buy what you needed and maybe in a few years you&#039;d be set for life as far as those necessities.</p><p><br /></p><p>What else was there to spend money on? Nothing much really. Maybe some Greek luxury goods imported into Italy, but you&#039;d probably not be able to afford any of that anyway. So I guess a cheap prostitute once a month might have been your idea of entertainment and luxury.</p><p><br /></p><p>Life was tough for most people who weren&#039;t part of the elites, but if it&#039;s any consolation, it was brief. With the abysmal health care available, the poor sanitation, and rampart warfare, the average person would probably be dead before their 48th birthday. If you made it to 55, you&#039;d probably look like a 65 or 70 year old does today, and you&#039;d be the worse for wear after a life of tough manual labor, chronic illnesses and no modern science to cure you or manage the symptoms, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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