The problem of agriculture could not be solved overnight. In the short term, they still had to keep working the low-yield fields. As for developing the tertiary sector, that would have to wait another thirty years.
Unless productivity developed further and the total wealth created by society increased, how could the people's standard of living rise?
And if their standard of living did not rise, how would ordinary people have money to travel or spend on consumption?
Why did people of this era all make a habit of saving money? In truth, they had been forced into it. Without savings, the moment something happened, they would immediately go bankrupt.
Especially in the case of serious illnesses—once afflicted, a lifetime's savings would basically all be poured into that bottomless pit.
Bulgaria's hospitals were still relatively decent. At the very least, for terminal illnesses they could not cure, they would advise the family to adopt conservative treatment.
What exactly constituted conservative treatment was another matter. For the wealthy, it naturally meant continuing to throw money at the problem, serving as guinea pigs for doctors' experiments and gambling on that slender thread of life. Those without money could only use cheap medicine to ease the patient's suffering; how long they survived depended on luck.
Ferdinand understood these circumstances very well, yet there was nothing he could do. By global standards, Bulgaria's medical care was already considered advanced.
Even so, when facing a serious illness, they could only gamble on luck. The rich at least had a chance to gamble; as for the poor, they did not even have that opportunity.
Bulgaria now had many social problems, and none of them could be solved. Ferdinand often wondered how those other transmigrators had settled everything so easily. Why had every one of them turned into