More than that, there just wasn’t much light to do anything meaningful through the winter. All they had were tallow candles, and they emit very little light - enough to do simple tasks, but not any real work. Even preparing and cooking a proper meal would be difficult after dark.
This is incidentally why there is a disparity in when “dinner” should be for different people. Traditionally, dinner (or the main meal of the day) was had at lunch time, because this was the time of day where you could consistently have enough light to make a big meal. The evening meal was more of a light snack. Then, with the advent of gas and then electric lighting, wealthier people started having dinner parties, where they would have big meals in the evening. Thus, for them dinner became the evening meal, while in other places dinner always was and still is lunch.
I don’t think there is more work to be done today than during medieval times. And if there is then roll back industrialization because what’s the point of machines if they create more work.
Who’s we? Between weekends, holidays, and vacations I only work about half of the year too, and I’m not an exception where I live.
You medieval peasant, lol.
But to OP, before the industrial revolution, there wasn’t that much work to do in winter, so humans also had a kind of hibernation.
Of course animals were still fed and things like repairing a fence or shed would be done, but those weren’t really seen as full work days.
More than that, there just wasn’t much light to do anything meaningful through the winter. All they had were tallow candles, and they emit very little light - enough to do simple tasks, but not any real work. Even preparing and cooking a proper meal would be difficult after dark.
This is incidentally why there is a disparity in when “dinner” should be for different people. Traditionally, dinner (or the main meal of the day) was had at lunch time, because this was the time of day where you could consistently have enough light to make a big meal. The evening meal was more of a light snack. Then, with the advent of gas and then electric lighting, wealthier people started having dinner parties, where they would have big meals in the evening. Thus, for them dinner became the evening meal, while in other places dinner always was and still is lunch.
I don’t think there is more work to be done today than during medieval times. And if there is then roll back industrialization because what’s the point of machines if they create more work.
Disagree on that.
I quite like the products of industrialization.
My machine woven wardrobe, mechanized transportation, temperature controlled dwelling, refrigerator and the internet - not willing to give those up.
Climate change due to industrial emissions and impending ecological collapse leading to food shortages and starvation of most humans?
Disagree on what? That medieval peasants had more work than we do today?
Higher quality of life. We live longer, healthier, more productive, more interconnected lives, even if we do the same amount of work.