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It absolutely boggles my mind that a shirt could take 500 hours to make. As the article says, that makes clothing a family a full-time job. Although most of tha
by sdwr 6y ago
It absolutely boggles my mind that a shirt could take 500 hours to make. As the article says, that makes clothing a family a full-time job. Although most of that time was spinning, which wasn't too strenuous or mentally taxing, and allowed for socializing. Starting to sound like a modern office job :]
Since the time being written about, we've had massive technological improvements. Have they actually made the experience of life better?
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoRead "Bread, How Did They Make It?"[1] from the same blog and modern life sounds a hell of a lot better. Medieval peasants lived a very precarious existence. A bad harvest would be enough to push them over the brink into starvation. I'll take the office job where there's a bigger danger of eating too much than too little and where the only way that I would notice a bad harvest is if I read an article in the financial news about how coffee prices are up 8%. [1] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/ https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...