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[–] 111 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Our ancestors worked 16 hours a day 6 days a week. Maybe we should go back to that just to be fair. My grandparents didn't have the polio vaccine better stop that too.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/leisure-time-from-middle-ages-to-today-witold-rybczynski/103500020

    "In the Middle Ages, people actually had more leisure time and more holidays than we do," cultural historian Witold Rybczynski tells ABC RN's Life Matters.

    "Leisure was more important in terms of everyday life than the work. The work was harder and broken up much more … compared to today."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes yes yes..... You give these fat cat bastards an inch and they'll take a mile. Efficiency is not for me. It's for the money man. Also, what type of efficiency are we talking about here?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Except, no?

    Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

    It was a cheap way to keep them from violently revolting. Even then, it didn't always work.

    Speaking of violent revolt against an oppressive system, where are we at?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

    Holidays meant "you don't have to work for the lord who owns your land", but since they were subsistence farmers in the middle ages, that meant they still had to tend the animals and do the work on their own plots. They were absolutely still working during their "holidays".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Common misconception, wrong though. During Industrialisation was the all time peak but today is still much higher than hundreds or thousands of years ago

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