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Though we work more than farmers did 150 years ago: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/us
by bjourne 9y ago
Though we work more than farmers did 150 years ago:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
This was especially true in the Northern European countries where snow and lack of daylight would make it virtually impossible to work during the winter.
- lordCarbonFiber 9y agoI feel like attempting to compare modern quality of life to 19th century farmers is a fool's errand. Maybe we're working through the winter, but, as a whole it's very unlikely to kill us so I'm inclined to take that trade.