

my source is count of monte cristo and eventually he was just built different, so point taken
The nearly indigent “free lunch fiend” was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about “loafers and free-lunch men” who “toil not, neither do they spin, yet they ‘get along’”, visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to escape unnoticed.


my source is count of monte cristo and eventually he was just built different, so point taken


well back then basically all rich men went through martial training from a young age, whereas poors like us didn’t receive any training. So dueling was a very one-sided affair where the rich could basically use their elite upbringings so crush interpersonal disputes
Pluribus but it’s a papist conspiracy