• kameecoding@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    yes, 150 days, for the lord, how many days on your own property so you didn’t starve to death?

    they fucking worked all days except Sunday morning to evening, stop romanticizing feudalism ya cunts.

    and the church was part of the exploitation od the masses, promising afterlife dor the peasants but not for the rich “insert the bible quote here”

    fuck feudalism and fuck the church

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Arguments like these are also uncomfortably similar to the arguments slave owners would use to justify slavery. “Look, I take good care of them, feed them, give them clothes, and even built them their own shack next to my plantation house! That means I’m totally not exploiting the people I believe are my property!”

      • dasgoat@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        ‘I allow them to just exist between whipping and beating them, isn’t that enough?!’

    • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I mean, the actual source for this statistic is usually “The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure” by Juliet Schor who in turn got the number from an unpublished paper written by Gregory Clark in 1986. Clark did eventually publish a paper in 2018 where he increased his estimate to 250-300 days (which may still be less than some modern workers work).

      • lugal@lemmy.ml
        2·
        8 months ago

        And also: this was before the 8h day. People worked until they were done which was sometimes much more but on average less

      • huginn@feddit.it
        1·
        8 months ago

        261 days is working every single week 5 days a week.

        Most modern “middle class” jobs (which, to be fair, are increasingly scarce) don’t work 52 weeks a year with 0 holidays.

        Peasants worked sunup til sundown 250-300 days a year.

        Life fucking blew as a peasant.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
    0·
    8 months ago

    Yea but all the information humanity has collected at my fingertips and a more diverse diet than any king in history is pretty neato.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      But that’s not really a rebuttal either. How about we have both? Why not all the benefits of progress together with less work?

      • YeetPics@mander.xyz
        0·
        8 months ago

        How about it? I’d sign up, but have you looked around? Do you think those hoarding wealth and power will willingly share it?