Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "What if the Undead REALLY Existed in The Middle Ages?" video.

Alternative history idea: "The Black Undeath" Based in Europe during the ravages of the Black Death... But the victims succumbing to the sickness rise from the dead as zombies.
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One interesting aspect that always intrigued me about the Warhammer Fantasy setting is the fiefdoms of the Vampire Counts, and the heydey if Nehekara. Now some of these realms were or ended up completely undead. But during certain periods, the rulers practiced necromsncy but also still had living, human serfs and servants. Creating a kind of society where undead were used as manual labour and troops in their armies, serving their sometimes living masters. What would a society look like where undead beings have become a normalized part of people's everyday lives?
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@Petq011 Slavery wasn't that profitable, truth be told. Depending of course on which era of slavery we're talking about. If we're refering to the slave trade in the U.S, the cost of purchase of a slave, and his upkeep was significantly higher compared to the cost of paying a comparable worker with a salary. If you owned slaves, then you had to get them to work for years and even decades before the investment actually started to pay itself off. That's a long time to spend ensuring that your slaves don't escape or die of disease in the meantime. A hired farmhand was dirt cheap by comparison, since you didn't have to pay for lodgings or food for hired labour. It was expected to provide them with minimum lodgings (like being allowed to sleep in your barn), but every other living expense was something the farmhand was expected to pay out of their own salary. A slave, by comparison, wasn't entitled to a salary. You had to pay for EVERYTHING involved in keeping them alive and productive (food, lodgings, doctor appointments etc.)
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Is it halloween already Raf? :D
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Could be harder. Could be easier. It's not a certainy that necromancy would cause blight in plants. If it doesn't, then zombies controlled by a necromancer could be utilized as quite effective farmhands. They don't tire and they don't (always eat). They could plow fields and harvest crops at any hour. Eventually their corpse like bodies might break from the strain, but they're easily replaced.
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Not really. Unless subjected to the putrefying organisms in the ground that break down and consume dead biomatter as motionless corpses, but rather are standing and walking around, it would take quite long for the walking skeletons and zombies to break down.
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