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In the interests of having posted anything here at all:

I have recently been on a Medieval and early modern European history kick, and one of the things that fascinates me is the impossibility of currency conversion. Or, no, that's a little unfair, people can and do make currency conversions between Medieval and modern values.

The problem is that the actual costs and values of a lot of stuff has changed.

I knew before hand that the value of labor was way lower and the value of goods was way higher, but nothing quite solidifies it by looking at royal budgets and seeing them pay people like. the equivalent of $1000 for a year of full time labour, in the mean time having million dollar feasts on $100k plates.