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Yeah I’d be curious to see how much of that short workday was because just staying alive was so much harder than today that you simply didn’t have time for more
by Swizec 5y ago
Yeah I’d be curious to see how much of that short workday was because just staying alive was so much harder than today that you simply didn’t have time for more work.
Like when dinner takes 3 hours to prepare instead of 20 minutes, that’s quite a difference.
- monocasa 5y agoWe went to 10 to 12 hour days of back breaking labor, six days a week with no off season during the industrial revolution, so I don't think it's a physical limit that was being hit.
- ratsforhorses 5y agoWhat dinner takes 3 hours....? if we're talking about the poor, realistically soup was a mainstay...here in Romania we have all kinds and then there's marmaliga, basically polenta, add salt and if you're hungry delicious... it does seem like rent, insurance, transport , investment for the future takes up a lot of "work" needs in the present, besides we've become incredibly vain, where the packaging is often worth more than the content...