Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by endtime on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:03PM
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I'm sure it's possible to work 150 days a year now if you are okay with that standard of living.
Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by tzahola on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:17PM
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True.
However, the rest of the time was spent with military duty (feudal levy), preparing/preserving food, collecting firewood, takig care of livestock and general homesteading like repairing your mudbrick house.
Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by ekianjo on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:32PM
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yeah and they had nothing to eat at all some years if the harvest was bad, and no medical care and most people died in their 30s. So, which scenario do you prefer?
Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by danharaj on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:43PM
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Ok, so now you're making an observation about medicine instead of hours of work. What exactly is your point here? Things are better now than they were in the past, so there's no reason why they should be better?
Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by ekianjo on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:38AM
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I mentioned harvests which have nothing to do with medicine. I know we don't suffer from famines nowadays but this was a real thing before.
Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by cdelsolar on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:42PM
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most people didn't die in their 30s, if you could make it through childhood you'd usually live to your 60s/70s.
While you are right that life was difficult, your sense of the past is warped to the point of caricature.