Would you rather live the life of an average person in the current era, or live as an absolute monarch 500 years ago? Why? (sh.itjust.works)

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This question is common throughout the internet, but I'd like to see Lemmy's response.

The country you end up in would be random, you don't get to pick.

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[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

For context in 1525:

King of England: Henry VIII (with all the wives)

King of France: Francis I (with all the fighting the Holy Roman Empire and Pope)

King of Spain: Charles V (with all the being Holy Roman Emperor and inbreeding)

Emperor of China: Jiajing (with all the torturing and murdering dissenters)

Edit: I chose these 4 because between them they were monarchs of the 4 most powerful countries in the world at the time, especially Charles of Spain and Jiajing of China but France and England were soon poised to eclipse the others.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Henry VIII suffered from numerous painful ailments that killed him eventually.

[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

What about African countries and other Asian regions? Maybe America?

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Kongo - Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga - first Catholic monarch of Kongo

Songhai - Askia the Great - zenith of Songhai's power

Adal - Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad - founded city of Harar

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