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>our ancestors worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week
no, they didn't
that's the lie you were raised on so you would feel grateful to be a slave
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@deprecated_ii >our ancestors worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week
During the medieval era, peasants worked an average of 20 hours per week, which fluctuated depending on the demands of the lord and the season. The Ancien Régime of France guaranteed peasants, laborers, and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days, and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days. Workers in London, England, in 1750 worked 11 hours per day, five days a week. Medieval peasants enjoyed a less rigid workday, with an average of eight weeks to half a year off. The average American worker receives an average of 8 paid holidays and 8 vacation days, which brings the average worker to 244 days of work per year, considerably more than our peasant ancestors.
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@LordMordred @deprecated_ii I'm pretty sure that medieval peasants still worked pretty darn hard. The stuff you might do out in the fields would be nowhere near the whole of what needed doing, and even if you didn't have as rigid a schedule, you'd still have plenty of backbreaking work. That doesn't mean there weren't positives and joyful aspects to medieval life, but the "peasants had it better" narrative isn't really true. Mind you a lot of the "forced happiness" aspect of service sector jobs and the like weren't present, you could go about your daily tasks with whatever demeanor you wished without fake corporate "teamwork" bullshit. And there was more of a sense of community and purpose, even if you generally didn't have much space or many luxuries to yourself. I would have to say in most respects modernity is better, and it's easier to work around the deficiencies of modernity than it was for the medievals, but the stuff that really leads to happiness exists in all ages, and it's just a matter of making the most of what you have.
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@ArdainianRight @LordMordred they were subsistence farmers paying like 10% tax, deliverable in food or goods, not just cash. that's a much easier system to live under than ours, with effective 40%+ tax rates payable only in cash
aside from farming work they would've had many varied duties they could pursue at their own pace, setting their own priorities. a lot of it would be work around the homestead, making clothing and preserving food and whatnot. stuff that just takes time and is easy on your body
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