because that’s how it used to work.

In sesame street? Have you ever opened a history book on any place in the world?

Medieval peasants worked far less than we have to and enjoyed far more freedoms

Yeah now I know that you're drunk or 5 years old. Medieval peasants either were slaves, worked as a semi slave for a lord who could squeeze them out, or worked for themselves and were unprotected from the "funs" of the time. ALL of them had to work sun up to sun down to be able to survive. This fantasy where you are living in where medieval peasants had more free time than any of us is just bullshit, there is no other word for it. We actually have 8 hour work days and 2 free days per week (soon will become 3, then 4). Peasants had a 7 day work week, pretty much. Ah, if they were lucky the Sunday church visit would spare them an hour.

one farmer now could feed a whole kingdom

Oh god where do you get your info from? Or, what have you been smoking and please don't give me any of that, I want my brain cells.

You heard some things about "capitalism bad because some rich guys" and apparently really think that that is how the world works. Abuse of capitalism is bad, yes. But the core of it is literally what allowed you to have a mobile phone in your hands so that you can bitch about the evils of capitalism. Grow up.

I think I understand better than you do what goes into a McDonald’s hamburger judging by your spelling of it.

Ah the famous "You made a typo, so I'm right!" argument

Look, I get it, you're on an "antiwork" sub, but you really don't understand how this world works. If you think that something like communism is the solution oh boy do I have a bridge to sell you! Maybe you should open up a history book. Actually, go to wikipedia, search for famines in the last century. Hint: The fun ones are communist! All of it. Maybe look up communist chekist. Watch the movie, crawl in a fetal position for 2 weeks and maybe then you have some idea about how fucked up shit can be and that capitalism, with all its flaws and failures, maybe really isn't that bad.

Get a job!