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markiv

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20. the 40 hour week became the 40 hour paycheck for unlimited hours

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Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:30 PM

Aug 2013

for anyone salaried

all hours above that are basically slavery

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Why a Medieval Peasant Got More Vacation Time Than You [View all] n2doc Aug 2013 OP

A week off to quaff ale seems pretty good right about now. FSogol Aug 2013 #1

Keep in mind life expectancy statistics include child mortality jeff47 Aug 2013 #4

+1 Javaman Aug 2013 #7

And those of the upper classes could expect to live as long as today. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #16

Did this book cover Italy in the 14th century? It is thought by some historians that CTyankee Aug 2013 #26

Yes, it does. Javaman Aug 2013 #27

Thanks! I'll try to get it from my library. It's funny, because if I had seen it in the stacks I CTyankee Aug 2013 #29

You will love this book! nt Javaman Aug 2013 #38

High child-bearing mortality too. PotatoChip Aug 2013 #8

While working on the family tree, PatSeg Aug 2013 #13

Your grandparents probably worked much harder than, and were subjected to stresses, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #17

It does appear that a more urban lifestyle PatSeg Aug 2013 #23

We need social time, we're social animals. I believe this system kills more of us than any other Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #41

Interesting... Bay Boy Aug 2013 #31

As did mine. Many of my ancestors from the 1700's and 1800's lived into their 80's Nay Aug 2013 #32

At first I thought PatSeg Aug 2013 #39

Interesting. When my mother was a child in a large city in Canada in the 20's, there was Nay Aug 2013 #42

It is hard to imagine what it was like PatSeg Aug 2013 #45

I looked back at my grandmother and her siblings (nine children in all) PatSeg Aug 2013 #37

A note on medieval life expectancy: Lizzie Poppet Aug 2013 #6

Excellent post. woo me with science Aug 2013 #21

Computers, cell phones, video games, and flat screen TVs PatSeg Aug 2013 #40

Sure, they all... bobclark86 Aug 2013 #2

+1 Puzzledtraveller Aug 2013 #3

I wish more of us would question the status quo. knitter4democracy Aug 2013 #5

I agree Joe Shlabotnik Aug 2013 #36

you selfish people only think about yourselves, do you ever stop to think about the blight Snake Plissken Aug 2013 #9

Wrong link maxsolomon Aug 2013 #10

strange...corrected n2doc Aug 2013 #11

Same thing happened to me when I put it on FB maxsolomon Aug 2013 #34

Keynes didn't assume... Xolodno Aug 2013 #12

There are 2 leisure classes - one at each end of the economic spectrum grahamhgreen Aug 2013 #14

LOL, I bet that peasant would love to learn to type and sit in air conditioning all day snooper2 Aug 2013 #15

That sounds horrible. hunter Aug 2013 #47

Also, those guys in Supermax get SHIT-TONS more time off nt Dreamer Tatum Aug 2013 #18

the modern attitude of treating humans like they are cogs in a corporate machine Supersedeas Aug 2013 #19

the 40 hour week became the 40 hour paycheck for unlimited hours markiv Aug 2013 #20

Kick for quaffing ale and then a siesta. nt Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #22

ttt Blue_Tires Aug 2013 #24

production, not money, was the primary motive--and there were potlatches MisterP Aug 2013 #25

My math comes out differently: 52 * 2 = 104, plus 8 vacation days = 112. IdaBriggs Aug 2013 #28

A week off quaffing ale, with no annoying emails to check, phone calls to take, Nye Bevan Aug 2013 #30

My company just got rid of earned vacation time. Avalux Aug 2013 #33

Why do you think they're called "the idle rich" ? dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #35

Whose peasants/serfs are we talking about? Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #43

A rather tiny time frame here. JNelson6563 Aug 2013 #44

But what about peasant women? theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #46

K&R woo me with science Aug 2013 #48

So THAT's why witch burnings and other executions were so well attended Pretzel_Warrior Aug 2013 #49

And our educational expectations reflect that... HereSince1628 Aug 2013 #50