Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 8 Nov 2024 01:38:22 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <1190130485.752353610.782141.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <38b4c4eb-2ab5-df94-0baa-c2d7fcdda60d@example.net> <0a299bb1-a543-4fc4-1d5f-44dc660bb256@example.net> <685000453.752623682.964071.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1404344009.752720024.643574.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Vsws2t3BEoCxGtsyQaiuVQF+lEWueTXlZ9iPZ2+pbgXSihL1SR Cancel-Lock: sha1:cJXdV0B3SwgDdrsNc2/YY5AwRBY= sha256:A7gnrgy5REnow5p1fQ/cWRgfFIbKHI9HPr47gKapKGk= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228727 comp.os.linux.misc:60763 On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 17:57:50 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: > rbowman 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. Another factor in medieval Europe was the various saint's days, feast days, fast days, and other events in the liturgical calendar. There are a lot of them. https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm? date=2020-11-21 That's one that's coming up soon. We've jusr been through All Souls and All Saints.