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VampireCoyote posted...

Yeah see I still dont think people from pre-modern history would relate to that

I just discovered that idea from a book. It makes sense to me.

"Feudal lords, insofar as they worked at all, were fighterstheir lives tended to
alternate between dramatic feats of arms and near-total idleness and torpor.
Peasants and servants obviously were expected to work more steadily. But even
so, their work schedule was nothing remotely as regular or disciplined as the
current nine-to-fivethe typical medieval serf, male or female, probably worked
from dawn to dusk for twenty to thirty days out of any year, but just a few hours
a day otherwise, and on feast days, not at all. And feast days were not infrequent."

I'm not saying their lives were so much better and that I would love to be transported to medieval Europe without comforts of modern life. But the concept of trading time for labor, where idleness at a job is a sin and you get rewarded for sitting at your workplace when there isn't even actual work to be done at that moment, is definitely modern.