Meh. I disagree with this take. Here in the 21st century a lot of NRx adjacent people have this belief that the tyranny of the clock is a new modern thing. Read some old books by tradesmen. I've got a book by a 19th century cooper. They got paid piecework, and they HUSTLED.https://twitter.com/AHelleneAuthor/status/1130830430943490048 …
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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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True, but they weren't sitting on the couch watching TV all evening, either. Fixing broken small equipment, mending clothes, carving wooden items, I think there was so much to do that they *claimed* leisure time, but not the way we do today. No "leisure industry."
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We've abstracted away the existential imperative of work. Few perceive the truth of "he who does not work, neither shall he eat." Work is too often viewed as an obligatory game: play by arbitrary rules, win money; negotiating rule changes presumes arbitrariness.
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Ha, ha, picture yourself as a farmer today, trying to get the _____ in. Same!
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When I was deployed to Afghanistan one of our teams got called out for a suspected IED because men were spotted working in a field at night. Team arrives on scene, report back to TOC: Farmers taking advantage of the full moon to work their fields when it wasn't balls hot out.
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