> for the vast majority of people, most waking hours were actively spent on subsistence and survival Disclaimer: i'm not well-versed in anthropology/history, b

> for the vast majority of people, most waking hours were actively spent on subsistence and survival Disclaimer: i'm not well-versed in anthropology/history, but this has been studied and debated by scholars [0] If you've ever been to the countryside, you'll notice that everything feels slower. The fast, ever-working "lifestyle" we know today apparently originated in with early capitalism/industrualism and was itself subject to stark opposition (for example from the luddites, who contrary to popular belief were not anti-tech but rather early anti-capitalists). When that new rhythm was expanded to all areas of life with mass-industrialization in the 18th/19th century, thinkers of the time pointed the absurdity to replace legal slavery with what they called "wage slavery". [1] [0] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery