Peasants

I was organizing my documents folder and came across this little snippet from a conversation. I don't remember who I said it to, but I thought it was profound enough to post somewhere.

Midnight is where the day begins says:
im watching this show about the black plague and they said that after the plague there were more resources to go around and "people who had formerly been peasants could now own land and have their own farms, and lead independent lives rather than working the fields of others"
Midnight is where the day begins says:
i wonder if most americans realize theyre peasants, by that definition