• DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t account for the work they had to do at home. They had their own food to harvest, animals to tend to, clothes to make and the materials to make those clothes didn’t fall out of the sky. They had to chop firewood, mend the home, cook the food from scratch. Their mandatory holidays weren’t spent pursuing a hobby, traveling, playing games or consuming entertainment. Those days off just meant they could do all the work they needed to do at home instead of doing all the church’s work on top of their own.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Another way to phrase it:

      As our personal workloads were reduced, that free time was commandeered by our employers