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Re:“People simply empty out” by goggles99 on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:24AM (#6222982)
How many hours per day have humans worked historically compared to now? Just to survive (not starve to death). Do you think man works more now than historically? Man was cursed (after expulsion from the garden of Eden)/ or evolved (depending on your beliefs) to work, a lot.
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Re:“People simply empty out” by pja on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:35AM (#6223007)
Hunter-gatherer societies worked fewer hours and lived longer than agricultural ones & certainly worked far fewer hours than the average modern US worker.

You could regard the invention of agriculture as the curse which permanently excluded humankind from the hunter-gatherer Garden of Eden.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by thenomad on Saturday August 17, 2013 @05:12AM (#6228605)
There's considerable evidence that most serfs in the Middle Ages (Europe) worked the same or less hours as we do today.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...

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