As one of the privileged Gentry, you can expect those Serfs to toil away on your behalf from 5am to 8pm, 25 hours a day, 8 days a week. And you? All you have to worry about is what colour tights and jerkin you're wearing and that your court jester is, indeed, funny 'Tis a grand life...for the Gentry. The Serfs, not so much.
Ah the colourful tights and jerkins. I forgot about them, the advantages keep on coming!