> Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive Pre-industrial workers actually worked less than people who have 40 hour

> Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive Pre-industrial workers actually worked less than people who have 40 hour work weeks do[1]. [1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...