Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by quietthrow on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:30AM
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May be same could be said of your perspective and the comment thereof. Itβs all relative. Your idea of you and you working is totally relative too. You are nothing but a collection of cells which never stop working until they all do together. By that logic nobody ever had free time.
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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by dcolkitt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:48AM
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To make it more concrete, I strongly suspect that pre-industrial people did not have any leisure equivalent activity to the five hours a day that the average American spends watching TV.