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Whoever invented the eight hour five day work week is Satan. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

It's a conservative think tank. Feel free to admit that your only source is propaganda. I'm asking you to provide any kind of backing for your claim. As a trans person, as a woman, as a decent human being, a conservative think tank is not a valid source that I'm going to respect. Not even mentioning that again it is an opinion piece. They have provided literally no backing for their statements whatsoever.

Provide me an actual source and I'll respond to it. All the typing you've done, and assuming that you're basing your statements on factual evidence, I'm sure you could've found at least 1 legitimate objective non-propaganda source based on any kind of scholarly or academic analysis of historical records.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Here were my claims:

    When they worked, it was from dawn to dusk doing hard labour. And if the harvest wasn't good, they died because the Lord took his tithe regardless.

    And that's not to mention the household labour, all of which we take for granted (consider chopping wood every time you wanted heat, mending clothes or the ridiculous process of cleaning them.) Or looking after farm animals etc. The only stuff that's counted in that 150 days silliness is working the land which was only a portion of their real labour.

    With which of these claims do you disagree?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not arguing with your claims. I'm asking for a source.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    When they worked, it was from dawn to dusk doing hard labour.

    Read Witold Rybczynksi's Home when he talks about medieval life, pages 24 - 36 in my copy.

    And if the harvest wasn’t good, they died because the Lord took his tithe regardless.

    That's how feudalism worked.

    And that’s not to mention the household labour, all of which we take for granted (consider chopping wood every time you wanted heat, mending clothes or the ridiculous process of cleaning them.)

    These are pretty self evident. Unless you think they had chainsaws and washing machines in the dark ages?

    The only stuff that’s counted in that 150 days silliness is working the land which was only a portion of their real labour.

    This is linked in the source I already provided, you can look at the original study: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

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