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Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
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Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There are no cars in the streets and it feels like a movie set. Always an interesting hour, 4 AM.
For me it's very strange to see that a huge portion of the population sleeps until 9am (and a big number even until 10am!). I worked in many countries before and in most workplaces you had to show up at least by 9. Of course there were some exceptions but in general that's how it was.
I find it much easier to stay up later than to wake up earlier; for others it's the opposite.
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Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
It involved a bunch of guys standing around on construction sites sort of getting stuff done, but mostly when the owner was present, and enjoying their time outside part of the time when the owner was not.
Or women spending easily 50% of their time in their shops not selling things but chatting with various other women, or watching their kids.
I wasn't a fan of the clear gender-separation, but it was interesting to see that both men and women spent much of their day interacting in personally meaningful ways with their neighbors/customers, rather than bleeping products as fast as they could to hit some kind of target.
Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
"8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" was a slogan in the labor movement, fighting for the eight hour day, coined in 1817.
I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
From what I recall, the Hadza (hunter gatherers of Tanzania) work ~6 hours a day. Sure, 8 hours a day is more, but same ballpark.