Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 11:40:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Spending 8 hours a day including 3 hours of coffee and lunch breaks
doens't compare with digging up ten tons of soil and wheel barrowing it
to a donkey cart to build a Roman road.

 
I worked one summer for a contractor building a new development. Most of
the work was building leach fields which required pushing wheelbarrows of
gravel along 2x12 planks to dump in the ditches. In would drive to work
morning using my palms on the steering wheel since it took a while for my
fingers to work.
 
Other tasks were little better, strictly grunt work. It could have been
1960 or 196 AD.
 

I was thinking more of the small merchant or craftsman. Live above the
shop, no commute. Do some work in the morning, go to the games in the
afternoon. About the equivalent work week to what we have - two days off a
week, although randomly distributed.

--
Pete