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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by im3w1l on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:32AM (#41035609)
> Same as it always was.

I feel like it's an industrialization thing. Before industrialization people would farm their own land, set up their own shops etc. Sure there would be people above you, but they wouldn't and couldn't micromanage you.

The peasant surely didn't have morning standups with their lord.

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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by surgical_fire on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:34PM (#41036371)
> farm their own land

Peasants didn't have "their own land". All land belonged to the aristocracy, and you would farm the their land.

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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by dambi0 on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:44PM (#41037196)
Even the official end of feudalism, at least in the UK, was at least a century before the Industrial Revolution.
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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by datavirtue on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:43PM (#41037184)
Look no further than the native land of JD Vance and you can find sharecroppers. However, these days no self-respecting man would sharecrop. "I'll just sit at the house."
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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by im3w1l on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:48PM (#41039652)
But the aristocracy didn't micromanage that, is my point. Unless you were a slave I guess?
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