Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America.

polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This isn’t entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn’t work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

  Source: adamsmith.org/…/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-…

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  • polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uh, the obly research you put to backup your case is a meme, glass houses much?

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• ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wasn’t this confirmed false?

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It absolutely is false and it’s very misleading. Living as a peasant would suck complete ass.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, sure, good luck only working 150 days, or even taking a whole day off, when you’re supposed to tend to farmland and animals. That’s like having a holiday from being a parent

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And? They also had communal+generational help with that.

    There was bad stuff too, but we are getting fucked here

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Assuming communal farming, you just rotate who works each day.

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  • polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    Ok bootlicker defender of your oppressors

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Funny, I didn’t know calling out bullshit was the same as “defending my oppressors”. I’d love if you could point out the kind of crazy mental gymnastics needed for that

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