Interesting Mastodon thread comparing today’s typical workload to that of medieval peasants.

  • persolb
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    1 year ago

    I do wonder how much of this was evenly dispersed. IE: did slaves or indentured servants or the Irish keep working?

    I’m reminded of an Indian fries of mine who one told me ‘India is better than most countries; everyone has servants’… and took way to many minutes to see the contradiction.