This best it represents specific times and places, under specific regimes, not some constant fact of working the land. Working the land had tons of downtime -

This best it represents specific times and places, under specific regimes, not some constant fact of working the land. Working the land had tons of downtime - even back at medieval and ancient times. In fact, even hunter gatherers have been observe by ethnographers to just need 2-3 hours to get the food for the day.