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You are missing a crucial point: Until very recently, it was completely normal to have at least one person per household completely dedicated to household stuff

You are missing a crucial point: Until very recently, it was completely normal to have at least one person per household completely dedicated to household stuff, like cleaning, tidying, shopping, childcare, etc. Nowadays, both parents have to work full-time, and are expected to take care of that in addition to everything else. Also, there is lots of research showing that subsistence farmers actually worked both fewer days, as well as fewer hours, compared to the modern standard. 8+ hours workdays are not natural in any way, they were introduced through the industrial revolution.

AlecSchueler 3y ago
> Nowadays, both parents have to work full-time, and are expected to take care of that in addition to everything else. This is true, those social expectations are in place. But I think it's worth noting that it generally doesn't happen this way in practice. Even though women have entered education and the work force, often in higher numbers than men, they are still doing much more additional unpaid labour than men in every country in the world [0]. Would it be fair to say that women have experienced the effects we're talking about to a greater degree? 0: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/989567/Unpaid-and-Unrecognised1.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
swalling 3y ago
There is also compelling evidence that hunter-gatherers had even more daily leisure time than both modern industrial or historical agricultural societies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society