> In almost every culture and occupation throughout history up to the industrial revolution, working people have never spent 8+ hours a day, year round, in serv

> In almost every culture and occupation throughout history up to the industrial revolution, working people have never spent 8+ hours a day, year round, in servile labor. It's absurd. If we're talking about pre-industrial-revolution, but post-agriculture, I would expect that mandatory labor took up more than ~2000 hours a year, and probably much more. Farmer workers famously work very long hours even now: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+hours+do+farmers+work https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+hours+do+farmers+wo... For a review of a (somewhat speculative) look at the transition to agriculture and how it enabled mandatory work: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-the-grain/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...