• fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I have to ask, why are we even working so fucking hard??

    For 99.99% of the history of our species, we either worked 12+ hours every day including weekends or we literally starved to death. And at times, people starved to death even though they worked that much, because the system stole what they produced.

    Dude, I cannot claim to know exactly what you do day-to-day, but generally speaking we are not working hard in 2024.

    • whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Having studied the history of work, this is one of those things that sounds super smart, but is actually half-baked nonsense. As hard and crappy as medieval life was, you still work twice as many days in a year as a medieval peasant did. It gets worse the more societies and ways of life you study.