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We let merchant kikes, industrial kikes, and corporate kikes completely infest and destroy our civilization like a terminal cancer.
"One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. [...]These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. And they are false. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind.[...] According to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers[1], the medieval workday was not more than eight hours. The worker participating in the eight-hour movements of the late nineteenth century was "simply striving to recover what his ancestor worked by four or five centuries ago.""
"An important piece of evidence on the working day is that it was very unusual for servile laborers to be required to work a whole day for a lord. One day's work was considered half a day, and if a serf worked an entire day, this was counted as two "days-works."[2] Detailed accounts of artisans' workdays are available. Knoop and jones' figures for the fourteenth century work out to a yearly average of 9 hours (exclusive of meals and breaktimes)[3]. Brown, Colwin and Taylor's figures for masons suggest an average workday of 8.6 hours[4]."
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Eight centuries of annual hours
13th century - Adult male peasant, U.K.: 1620 hours
Calculated from Gregory Clark's estimate of 150 days per family, assumes 12 hours per day, 135 days per year for adult male ("Impatience, Poverty, and Open Field Agriculture", mimeo, 1986)
14th century - Casual laborer, U.K.: 1440 hours
Calculated from Nora Ritchie's estimate of 120 days per year. Assumes 12-hour day. ("Labour conditions in Essex in the reign of Richard II", in E.M. Carus-Wilson, ed., Essays in Economic History, vol. II, London: Edward Arnold, 1962).
Middle ages - English worker: 2309 hours
Juliet Schor's estime of average medieval laborer working two-thirds of the year at 9.5 hours per day
1400-1600 - Farmer-miner, adult male, U.K.: 1980 hours
Calculated from Ian Blanchard's estimate of 180 days per year. Assumes 11-hour day ("Labour productivity and work psychology in the English mining industry, 1400-1600", Economic History Review 31, 23 (1978).
1840 - Average worker, U.K.: 3105-3588 hours
Based on 69-hour week; hours from W.S. Woytinsky, "Hours of labor," in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. III (New York: Macmillan, 1935). Low estimate assumes 45 week year, high one assumes 52 week year
1850 - Average worker, U.S.: 3150-3650 hours
Based on 70-hour week; hours from Joseph Zeisel, "The workweek in American industry, 1850-1956", Monthly Labor Review 81, 23-29 (1958). Low estimate assumes 45 week year, high one assumes 52 week year
1987 - Average worker, U.S.: 1949 hours
From The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet B. Schor, Table 2.4
1988 - Manufacturing workers, U.K.: 1856 hours
Calculated from Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Office of Productivity and Technology
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The more I read about history, the more I think urbanization causes godlessness and wickedness more than anything else. The Old Testament Jews destroyed the weak, decadent, and urban dwellers of Canaan, and at their strongest were ruled by David, the shepherd-king and master of the harp. The more the Jews urbanized, the more they became pharisaic money-changers, and the more they became alienated from God and nature. Cities have been dens of atheism and degeneracy since the ancient world. There's something about cutting ourselves off from God and God's creation that damages the soul.
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@ArdainianRight Thomas Jefferson was 100% right about cities.
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@Eiswald @ArdainianRight what did he say again?
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@MK2boogaloo @ArdainianRight There's even more. He really hated cities. lol
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@Eiswald @ArdainianRight wasn't he an aristocrat?
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@Eiswald @MK2boogaloo @ArdainianRight woodshop is jefferson reincarnate and nothing will change my mind
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@boeswilligkeit @ArdainianRight @Eiswald did Jefferson have sex with woods?
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@MK2boogaloo @ArdainianRight @Eiswald nigga what
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@boeswilligkeit @ArdainianRight @Eiswald see, Woodshop fucked some of the trees in his backyard.
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@ArdainianRight @Eiswald There's a point to this, but I don't think the answer is as simple as cities are bad. I think it more accurately can be described as increased abstraction causes it, which cities often abound in rather than the concept of cities itself. If the people residing in an area, whether urban or rural, have nothing tangible and productive to do they turn to increasingly anti-social behavior. All the meth heads in rural America who were made that way by the collapse of the local economy are just as degenerate as NY faggots, just in different ways
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