> The household he was born into lived on roughly $3.04 a day per person in today's money Go back not even that far and money comparisons like this make no sen

> The household he was born into lived on roughly $3.04 a day per person in today's money Go back not even that far and money comparisons like this make no sense. A family subsistence farming doesn't have the same kind of relationship we do with money. Also they couldn't really go down the shops. Existence was in the edge for everyone, even the wealthy. The other problem I see is that it's seems to pick a random time before a random location. So this will favour the times when there were far fewer people. No way around this, you either end up picking mostly near modern times because that's when the bulk of the people lived, or people further back in time who are pretty disconnected from our modern society.