The average work week in the 1890s was 100 hours

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1890s

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Back when men were men, women were men, and children were men.

Probably contributing to lower life expectancy in those days

I averaged 100 hours per week when I was a roustabout offshore on a jack-up rig. There was nothing easy about that job. Or safe for that matter.

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jumped off the highest building i could find

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The buildings weren't very tall back then....you might have survived.

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Back when men were men, women were men, and children were men.

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We invented computers, phones, internet, we can probably do in an hour or two what took them a day or two. Think about how much more shite we get done.

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And how much less people need to think about what they’re doing to achieve goals. It’s crazy how much smarter the bottom rung of the population is Relative to the top compared to What that gap was in 1890. You basically had a formal education or street smarts. The populace is basically as smart as it’s ever been but also as lazy as it’s ever been at the same time.

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You basically worked to survive. People I imagine weren’t taking vacations or coming home and doing anything really that fun.

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This is what I think people in general severally underestimate about human history. For about 99% of it 99% of all humans that have ever existed - save for small upper classes in every society - survived by hard labor. Whether it was farming or learning a laborious craft mostly used to buy food.

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People are miserable now because we’re not wired to have so much leisure time

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Don't disagree with this. Everything took longer back then as well.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

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I know a lot of successful people that put in 100 hours a week. You lazy, broke dick pieces of shits wouldn't understand hard work.

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Sorry others suck at managing their time. Looking busy and being busy are two completely different things