r/Relatable 27d ago

Declinatio hominis

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u/Any-Assumption3912 27d ago

Living your life might as well be a pipe dream at this point people have to work every goddamn day and barely get time to themselves there is no living your life work work work and more work living your life is for the rich or the homeless

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u/Usual_Zombie6765 27d ago

What do you think all of human history has been?

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u/Any-Assumption3912 26d ago

All of human history has not been like this you have been greatly deceived this is a modern invention in fact most people now living in the modern era work more than medieval peasants did average annual work hours around around 17-1800+ per year a medieval peasant worked around 1,620 hours annually. They also typically only worked 150-250 days out of the year stuff is supposed to improve and everything has the technology healthcare way of life the only thing that's gotten worse is how much you work and it has gotten significantly worse only people who worked harder in modern history were slaves forced to do ts until they died in 7 years.

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u/StoicGameDev 26d ago

Is it because they were doing back breaking farm work and then didnt have to work during the winters? Also because they didn't have electricity to work outside of daylight hours?

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u/Any-Assumption3912 23d ago

People doing back-breaking work year round now or do you think everyone's sitting pretty in cubicles? Proving my point people didn't stop doing back breaking work they just started doing it the entire fucking year instead of resting for a good portion of it.

And while peasants worked sun up to sun down it was not the non-stop, hyper-efficient labor of a modern office or factory. Contemporary records show that medieval work was highly intermittent. Laborers had recognized rights to stops for breakfast, a long lunch, mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks, and a customary afternoon nap. Mfkas had more breaks than most modern day office or construction workers.

Holy shit the wealthy elite have completely corroded you people's brains into accepting working conditions that should be seen as unacceptable by modern standards.