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> It wasn’t really realistic to expect hard physical labor for 70 hours a week That makes no sense at all. If it was common, it was obviously realistic.
by zombot 4mo ago
> It wasn’t really realistic to expect hard physical labor for 70 hours a week
That makes no sense at all. If it was common, it was obviously realistic.
- port11 4mo agoPeople were, in a very literal sense, working themselves to death. The birth of the industrial age is documented as one of the worst periods in Humanity’s record for quality of life.
- disgruntledphd2 4mo agoTo be fair, the industrial revolution also produced more books and other records, so there's a bias there in that without the changes to technology, there might not be as many books written about that period remaining.