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You have a very poor grasp of human history. "Jobs" haven't existed for most of it. The modern job mostly didn't exist until the Industrial Revolution. Most of

You have a very poor grasp of human history. "Jobs" haven't existed for most of it. The modern job mostly didn't exist until the Industrial Revolution. Most of human history was subsistence living, which by most anthropological estimates included a lot of free time and quite a bit of control over your day-to-day life. Assuming of course you didn't starve to death or other common ways of dying. Even if you are referring to the period of human history with civilizations that began with the Neolithic revolution, "jobs" just didn't exist. You WERE a farmer, or a miller, or X. You didn't get "hired" or "fired". It wasn't always great, but is also wasn't anything really similar to the modern job.

xlm1717 11y ago
>Assuming of course you didn't starve to death or other common ways of dying. This is part of the reason why people were desperate to give up subsistence living. Urbanization happened over the past couple hundred years because people saw more opportunity in cities than they could ever have with subsistence living. They would not starve to death anymore, at the very least. Their "jobs", or ways to make a living to help expand the definition for you, were very crappy, and filled with existential uncertainty, as opposed to the uncertainty of being "hired" or "fired".