Feudality

If you have ever daydreamed that maybe you could live a life of ease, you are probably not alone. Sure, rich folks aren't always happier, but you would be different...or at least less worried or less overworked, a little less degraded by not wondering where your next bite of food will hail from. For me this daydream is related to the stupid idealism often applied former time-periods, a practice of which I too, am guilty. I constantly wish I were living in the 1960's. The music was sweet and a huge populous got off with running around in rags and hangin' out all the time. They also had things to believe in. However, in reality, the 60's would have been really lame or really scary. War sucks with a voluntary army and I don't like the racism that still exists. F-the past.
My favorite stupid is the Middle Ages. Wooo! We'd run around, go to market, play with horses, maybe work or live in the castle, smell like shit, walk through shit, be undernourished, and work for a feudal lord. Speaking of feudalism, that would be the real segue into this ramble. I HATE the concept of rent. In the modern bourgeois world, poverty exists wandering the streets and begging for food in the fortunate places where you can do that in public. More pervasive is the poverty that exists as an either/or conundrum. You can afford to pay for a place to sleep, or you can afford to eat. Sure, there are programs for such things but what happened to the dignity of self-sufficiency? And even if we were permitted to wander onto a plot of land and claim, till and live it as our own, we'd probably just fail and starve anyway.
I understand that most of our average, landlords are not evil, feudal scum. They are just people trying to keep a roof over their head and food in their mouth. If someone is far enough up the ladder that they can afford to be a douche, then they're living off of more than just your money. I need close to no money to maintain what I find a comfortable standard of living. I like to have a roof in the winter, I'm also fond of eating, and studying and occasionally renting a movie. I am also fortunate that someday I will find some sort of job and easily fulfill these desires with minimum work within the context of my own society. There are many people who would settle for any of the meager things on my wish list—but who'll never get them.
There are no answers here. I will continue to live juxtaposed between my wealth and my poverty but my leisurely daydreams will be tainted by the knowledge that if I were living the life of luxury and leisure by not working, I'd be living off the work of others.