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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They had 2-3 months of religious holiday where they were not working. Also every Sunday, no work.

I can only speak for myself, but I don't work on Saturdays and Sundays. And I don't have any religious obligations on those days, so I've got them all to myself.

So that's almost two months worth of Saturdays and on top of that I've got a month of paid leave and 7 holiday days.

Work-wise I'm not going to day we have it better or that we aren't being exploited, but I sure know I wouldn't want to trade places with a medieval peasant.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Additionally, in times when the crops required less care (so not planting or harvesting) peasants were required by their lords to do various amounts of labor. Like "build X feet of fences per year, mend Y feet of fences, serve Z days of conscripted labor", etc.

So on the one hand, peasants weren't ruled by the tyranny of the clock like we are, but on the other: work still had to get done, was much less efficient than today (bc technology), and was often unpaid