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[–] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (13 children)

Where exactly people worked 150 days a year? Why would religious authorities even have power over secular authorities, this sounds like complete nonsense or extreme cherry picking.

Update:

In 1986 economist Gregory Clark wrote a working paper that (according to citers) contained this estimate. It doesn't appear he published it, but it got cited. He actually did for real publish a new paper in 2018 raising that number up to an estimate of 250-300 days.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Where exactly people worked 150 days a year?

Probably nowhere. They had eventually 80 days off per year (holidays) – including Sundays. Additionally craftsmen and farmers (but probably not peasants) worked also on the 'free' days.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/arbeitszeit-frueher-und-heute-die-hohe-anzahl-von-100.html (in German)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I've looked it up, thank you.

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