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> What's the < year 2000 equivalent of receiving/responding to a work email at 10pm? Your horse running away or the wolf jumping into your sheep pen among othe
by subhobroto 6y ago
> What's the < year 2000 equivalent of receiving/responding to a work email at 10pm?
Your horse running away or the wolf jumping into your sheep pen among others.
Humans have never had a dearth of interruptions.
What's sad is, today, most of those interruptions are completely ignorable (no one has a sheep pen thats not well protected and monitored) - yet, we treat that work email at 10pm with the same urgency as one.
Atleast back then, it was your sheep pen.
- goodpoint 6y agoFor 99% of people life had very few surprises. Like today's life in lesser developed, agrarian societies, days go by very slowly.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoYour sheep pen on their land across most of the world. And sometimes not even that.
- subhobroto 6y agoI'll be facetious and say it's now: Their sheep pen on their land across most of the world. On a more serious note, their land really applies to the rich could tax you. They didn't care about taking care of the land - the only reason why they owned it is to tax it. Nothing's changed for the better on that front.