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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by HSO on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:56AM (#20768786)
> Your entire post is overgeneralization

…proceeds to extrapolate from "my local dev market" to economy with thousands of sectors and tens of millions of workers without a trace of irony or self-awareness. Um, ok.

As others have pointed out, being in software engineering at this particular point in time is probably not super representative.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by rubber_duck on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:01AM (#20768844)
No I just gave one counterexample where his theory clearly breaks down and gave a more general explanation based on supply and demand.
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