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“lives far better than did Kings and Queens back in medieval times.”

You do? You lucky dog. I’m still trying to get a personal butler, chauffer, gardener (lawn...), cooks, housemaids, so I can be at that level too...

Sure, the Kings and Queens in medieval times had personal butlers, gardeners, housemaids, etc., but I bet they couldn't cure a toothache or take out an appendix. If you were a King and had colon cancer, you were screwed. They probably could not maintain the entire castle at 72 degrees when it was below zero outside. They could probably not maintain the entire castle at 68 degrees when it was 90 degrees outside.

If you were a King or Queen and had to travel a few hundred miles, you were in for a very bumpy ride no matter how many cushions you had in your royal carriage. And you would have flies and mosquitoes and other vermin to deal with.

If you were a King in 1730 and you wanted to hear the Brandenburg Concertos by Johanne Sebastian Bach or Water Music by Frederic Handel, you had to have your servants pull together a full orchestra. You could not just have them bring the music to you with a few clicks of a computer mouse.

Let's face it, the average lower-middle class person of today has it way better than a King or Queen of medieval times.

"I’m still trying to get a personal butler, chauffer, gardener (lawn...), cooks, housemaids, so I can be at that level too..."

I think you know what he really meant, but just incase you don't. It is not about the trappings, rather the life style. You want your room to be 80 degrees, just reset the thermometer and wait 10 minutes. You want it to go to 60 degrees, just do the opposite. You want to travel across the country, for not much money you can be there tomorrow. Diseases that used to kill you, now just require a few pills. A really rich person may have owned a thousand books. Now, used book stores won't even take hardback books. And so on.