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whatshisface
on Aug 22, 2019
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Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than toda...
The article argues that even when they had a chance to work more they didn't. Maybe they were all being shortsighted, or maybe that happened in a brief climactic golden age.
afiori
on Aug 22, 2019
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It was a common mindset, historian friends tell me that also shopkeepers in villages would work on a need-money-soon basis.
I think that historically the first job with the work ethic of more is better was the merchant.
xg15
on Aug 22, 2019
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Which would support the article's hypothesis that the big change in working time came through capitalism.
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