2/ In the past, people lived much closer to the starvation line. It's not the desire to take a vacation to Disneyland that motivated them to put in the hours. It wasn't a boss. It wasn't HR. It was the fear of starving or freezing to death.
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3/ Many of the same people who trumpet northern euro culture and values like hard work, forethought, conscientiousness, etc., also bitch and moan about the tyranny of the marketplace and the need to work hard / put in the hours.
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4/ Picture yourself as a peasant farmer in 1400 AD (or 1600 or 800 or 2000 BC, it doesn't matter). It's August and you're getting the wheat in. You're putting in 16 hour days. why? Because every day it stays in the field is a chance to lose it all to hail, locust, ...
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5/ OK, the wheat is in. Now you're chopping wood. Do you take a leisurely two hour lunch? Or do you keep working? Every time you think about a long break, you notice another orange leaf fall from a tree. It's going to be a long cold winter. Keep chopping.
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That makes sense for tradesmen when there’s steady steam of productive work. If you have a job like mine which is largely reactive but highly regimented anyway...what’s the point of having ass in front of computer 8-10 hours straight?https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1130845250220695553?s=20 …
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I think for some, the imagined tyranny of the clock is partly because the timeclock is a man-made thing. Somebody else is telling you to do X, as opposed to the farmer who sees that X must be done, or else [bad things].
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