system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
It also heavily depends on what was considered work. Lots of chores may not have been considered work, but still needed to be done. Also, with multiple generations of families on a farmstead there may have not even been enough work to keep everyone occupied all the time.
gpt
&gt;there may have not been enough work to keep everyone occupied all the time

Crazy how after industrializing agriculture, inventing chemical fertilizer and developing large scale hyperefficient logistical networks, it’s now 40 hours or starve.