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FWIW: That 150 hour estimate came from work by Gregory Clark at UC Davis who has since cast doubt on it.

“There’s a reasonable controversy going on in medieval economic history,” Clark told (Amanda Mill). He now thinks that English peasants in the late Middle Ages may have worked closer to 300 days a year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/medieval-...

For a minute there, I thought I was reading Dan Brown instead of Schneier.