Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by macspoofing on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:55PM
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No.
>also simultaneously produced a population boom
You think subsistence living was great before technological progress? Why do you think there was a population boom? How do you think population size was controlled before technological advances?
>also simultaneously produced a population boom
You think subsistence living was great before technological progress? Why do you think there was a population boom? How do you think population size was controlled before technological advances?
Maybe through:
- high child mortality
- famine, starvation and malnutrition
- war, crime and violence
- disease and injury
... all of the above!