"we have always worked less than that earlier in history (1)." I'm not so sure about that. Most people lived on farms, and if you know about farms, you know i

"we have always worked less than that earlier in history (1)." I'm not so sure about that. Most people lived on farms, and if you know about farms, you know it's almost 12 hours, 7 days a week. Or rather, it's an 'all consuming' type of business. That said, this is North American farming wherein farmers owned their land.