The lack of social safety net was obviously one of the best things about the time period. I would very much like to bring about such times again.
I can certainly see the point of this - poor people would do
anything for next to nothing if they were that desperate - which is beneficial to those of us who don't like to hear the word 'no' when purchasing services. On the other hand 'anything' could include mugging you, murdering you in your mansion, or Marxist revolution, not just BJs and buttsex.
And never forget, it is just possible that every once in a while a member of the elite such as you or I might fall through the class heirarchy and end up starving down there with the rest of them.
