OT It's another world out there

There is that, but I like to warm when I get out of bed too. Some people say
my place is a tad warm, but I don't see it.


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i've heard from a couple of sources that it basically goes as follows:

- in a hunter-gatherer society, the average worker works 4 hours a week
- in an agricultural society, the average worker works 10 hours a week
- in an industrial society, the average worker works 40 hours a week

towards the end of any energy society type the requirements will be more
strenuous, because even if you have better technology there is still more
competition for the resources. so in the middle ages (very late agricultural)
you would expect people to be working nearly as many hours as early
industrial.

yes. roman citizens were a lot better off in that regard.

 

driving to tesco

fettling the bike

going to Threshers

unwrapping the packaging and getting the bitch to set the microwave

waiting for a plumber

more bike fettling

watching the footie on the box

Yeah we don't do that anymore do we. Maybe there is a lesson to be
learnt from history on that one?

Back to Threshers

No they don't you do much of it yourself you are just too fucking thick
to realise the analogies.

It is difficult to define the differences but what I have read is very
suggestive that industrialisation and the rise of capitalism has led to
less "free time for the majority". Or, given the doubling of out life
expectancy in the last few years the same total free time but spread
over a longer life.

 

Arlie Hochscild has written some interesting stuff on the topic. In the
Managed Heart she examines the "Taylorization of emotions" amongst the
staff of a US airline. In other works she examines the contradictions in
labour markets: companies espousing "work life balance" policies yet
encouraging a culture of presenteeism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlie_Russell_Hochschild
The book "The Managed Heart" appears to be available free from google:
http://tinyurl.com/2lpqw5

 

At what point in prehistory did they discover wanking?

 

Good point but it is not an activity that of itself takes a great deal
of time is it? Unless of course you add frequency as well as duration
to the equation.

 

it has to be said that you're considerably better off than the average
industrial worker, however.