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And stress, damn stress 24/7 ever since mobile phones appeared. Some company tequires you to answer even if it's your off day.
There's a solution for that, BUT the only way you can fairly negotiate is during a job interview - pretty much any other time the company has an imbalance of power
This is a common confusion though when people say serfs worked only half the year that is working for their owner and doesn't include all the other work they need to do to live - to actually eat and have a basic life involved a lot of toil.
Of course not for rich people but that's never changed.
This isn't really true. Subsistence farming and hunter gatherer society sucked. It was continuous work to not starve, and a lot of people did starve.