Was being a pirate during the golden age of piracy the best life

Being on a naval vessel in that period was trash. Period.

There's a good reason press ganging was a thing. Nobody wanted to be a sailor because it was that bad of a job.

>>2558828
Get scurvy
Get tropical diseases
Sweet brown boipussi
Adventure
Possible drowning

I dunno, seems 50/50

Now being in the British marine sent to Australia or Africa seems legit

Given large amounts of virgin land
White guilt isn't a thing
Spend the rest of your live farming and shooting natives

>>2558828
you forgot "die from scurvy with rotting teeth even shittier than that of the normal anglo"

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Most pirates had a miserable life. Far from the rich, free and easy life.

>>2558841
Being a pirate beat the hell out of being a rating though.

imagine the modern junkie that steals your wallet at knife point in an alley.

now have the navy kidnap him, teach him to sail by whipping him, until he escapes and joins a gang of murderous squatters with the exact same background in some malarial wilderness.

that is a pirate. also syphillis.

>>2558828
>be pirate
>wake up one day at sea
>British Man o War with 5 times as many guns as your ship closing in
No thanks

>>2558846
>Now being in the British marine sent to Australia or Africa seems legit

Yeah, it's not like heaps of them died after shitting nonstop for 72 hours or succumbing to malarial fever or gangrene.