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		ryanmercer on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than toda... Pre-industrial workers worked, they didn't sit on their butts at a keyboard in air conditioning.

JoeAltmaier on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

Agreed. And fully half of them were farmers, who worked like nobody's business.

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