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Thsts also what it was like it in medieval europe lord days. Peasants sow and harvested the lands but most of the year didn't have much to do.
Sounds alot better then the cant skip a paycheck or miss rent hustle culture.
Both sides are true.
Work itself was much harder and life itself could be called a struggle compared to today’s standards.
But the attitude towards works was very different and much more broken up. Leisure in medieval times is well documented.
“During times of high wages and good harvests, peasants could expect to work no more than 150 days a year.”
https://www.thecollector.com/peasant-life-medieval-england/
I have no idea where this propaganda that is wasn't so hard being a feudal peasant came from but it's just laughable
It's all the same anti enlightenment brain rot you see all over Lemmy. These people have convinced themselves that modernity is so terrible, they'd literally rather be slaves.
It's just wishful thinking that the solution to our current dysfunctional relationship to labor can be found in the past, ultimately driven by a failure of imagination. Sure a medieval peasant's relationship to labor might have in some ways been better than today, but in most ways it was not. We can look at the past and learn from the positives only by acknowledging the negatives.