Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by wickedsickeune on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:19AM
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Who said that we have to trade current life for pre-industrial? Learning from the advantages of pre-industrial life and applying them now, is the point of the article, not regression.
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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by _7kf0 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:30AM
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Seriously. How about our (humanity's) project becomes: make our modern lives the best easiest most awesome imaginable?
Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by manfredo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:41AM
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The author did, when she wrote that it is a myth that capitalism did not reduced human toll. Using number of days spent working per year in a pre-industrial society and comparing it with a modern work week is incredibly naive. The increase in human "toll" caused by this increase in work is drastically offset by the benefits that this work produces: all the amenities we take for granted living in a post-industrial society.