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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by derefr on Thursday March 22, 2018 @06:32PM (#16653324)
The present population of workers the article is referring to with "work culture" are white collar workers. Comparing like to like, these wouldn't be people working in factories or mining. The equivalent jobs in previous eras would be those of priests, monks, and scribes; of surveyors, navigators, and architects; of military officers; and of nobles tinkering around in the sciences.

Compare the working conditions of those jobs to those of current white-collar work.

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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by 1787 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:21PM (#16653650)
I wouldn't be surprised if priests or monks had quite long work hours; imagine the RSI one might get from copying out whole books by hand.

You could reframe as underemployment a lot of the extent to which jobs in the past were less stressful (if they actually were). Trading stress for fantastic material wealth is a highly popular option afforded by technology.

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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by dfsdfdsfds on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:22AM (#16655807)
But how many of those white collar jobs were around in the past, compared to toiling on farms and stuff?
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