Still more leisure time then now.
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Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I hate to break it to you. But if you were born back then, you wouldn’t be a knight. You wouldn’t be an explorer. You’d be a peasant. Working your farm from birth to grave.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
sus@programming.dev 2 days ago
That is mostly a myth. They may have worked less than people at the height of the industrial revolution, but even a laborer who was paid a salary had to spend at least several hours per day on average on “not work” things like food preparation, home maintenance, feeding livestock, gathering firewood, repairing and cleaning clothing. Many tasks that are trivial today were highly arduous.
Then to top it all off it was fairly common for the local lord to force them to do extra labor without pay, like maintaining roads or training in a militia.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Remember that one of the biggest contributions to women’s liberation was the invention of the washing machine.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Don’t forget all the time spent dying from now preventable diseases!
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I currently and never have made enough money to pay professionals to do those things. A LOT of my time is spent preparing food and repairing/cleaning my clothes and dwelling.
sus@programming.dev 1 day ago
If you hand wash your clothes and process all your food from scratch you’re probably a pretty big exception to modern lifestyles
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 day ago
Even if you were a knight. Most knights lived shitty lives and didn’t have armor and maidens that glamorous.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah, this is very much glorifying the past, and probably the future. Medieval peasants would dream of sitting in a warm cubicle, well fed, while scrolling lemmy, if they could imagine it. Space colonization is probably impossible too.
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