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Re:Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern work... by emodendroket on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:48AM (#16658041)
When the Industrial Revolution was starting that can't have been the trade-off anyone had in mind, because none of those things had been invented.
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Re:Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern work... by TeMPOraL on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:15AM (#16665007)
It wasn't. But the article is comparing points in time (14th century vs. 21st century), so the path from one to the other doesn't matter for this discussion.
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