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dragon_dez_nuts t1_j4zl4uh wrote

Reply to comment by just-a-dreamer- in The year is 2058. I awake in my pod. by katiecharm

Our ancestors work 12 hours a day we work 8 hours

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j4zm2qw wrote

No they did not. They were actually drunk all day, at least in the 1800s in the USA. Americans were consuming 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week.

Middle age peasant farmers didn't work that much outside harvest season. In winter, they did next to nothing to preserve energy.

Hunters and gatheres worked very little, they practiced infanticide though to keep their numbers in check relative to their enviroment.

Modern deffintion of work rose with the factory system and the establishment of sugar plantations. Actually the british took many lessons from slave plantations into their first factories. Sugar nutrituon for the first time enabled workers to put in 12h shifts.

Given a choice, most people work as little as possible for a "living". That is the natural state of the world. They also like to be high and have sex, al lot, when they have nothing better to do.

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Ahaigh9877 t1_j50x40z wrote

> They also like to be high and have sex, al lot, when they have nothing better to do.

Better?

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PeridotBestGem t1_j52nfky wrote

> Given a choice, most people work as little as possible for a "living".

this is demonstrably not true. to survive in the 21st century in a developed country you could work for a few hours a day (maybe even not at all if you're in a place with a good welfare system or good homeless shelters). your quality of life would be terrible by modern standards, obviously, but you could survive. the vast majority of people work more in the modern day because we like modern comforts and we're willing to trade some time to have dishwashers and air conditioning and high speed internet.

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