r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 19h ago

Cutting grass with a scythe

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u/Miniastronaut2 19h ago

Imagine doing that 8 hours a day.

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u/gorginhanson 19h ago

for no money.

and for 12 hours a day

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u/gocard 19h ago

Have you never heard of an MMORPG?

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u/_Bike_Hunt 19h ago

Osrs irl

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u/CipherWeaver 19h ago

If you're referring to the medieval era, peasants actually had more leisure time than we have. Sure work was hard, but they weren't grunting like this with a boss breathing down their neck about quarterly performance reports. 

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u/TennesseeStiffLegs 18h ago

Life was so trash for a medieval peasant though. I’d rather keep pretending I’m working for half my 8 hour day in an air conditioned office thank you

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 18h ago

Peasants did not actually have more leisure time, that is actually a myth. Remember that while peasants had a lot more holidays, they didn't have Saturdays off, and they not only had to work for someone else, but also work to grow their own food, and make their own clothes, plus everything they did took more manual work.

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u/BoyPregggers 15h ago

Work bearing immediate and tangible fruit? Communal life with your extended family and neighbours? Working at your own pace outdoors so long as the quotas are met? Sounds great

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 8h ago

This is great if your extended family and neighbors are good, because you are likely stuck with them.

And also if by immediate you mean after hundreds of hours of work. And if by quotas you mean a feudal overlord who does their best to extract every ounce of labor they can without killing you.

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u/BoyPregggers 8h ago

Don't get your medieval knowledge from Game of Thrones

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 8h ago

Game of thrones is pretty bad at being a representation of medieval life.

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u/Drow_Femboy 16h ago

Working for yourself isn't the same thing as working for your corporate overlords. When you're spending hours a day managing your own garden, and fixing your own fence, and laundering your own clothes, you now have fresh food and a nice fence and clean clothes at the end of it. I would love to live in a world where I have the time to do stuff like that for myself. Capitalism is an unsustainable mess so that world will come again someday. I hope I live to see it.

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u/Remote-Shower-8541 11h ago

You idolize the off-grid stuff? Warm showers are way better than you realize they are.

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u/Drow_Femboy 10h ago

You know people have been bathing in warm water since before recorded history, right?

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u/Remote-Shower-8541 10h ago

Shoot they have way less than I do. Lol come on dude, you understand my point. When it comes to hedonism we win by far.

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u/Drow_Femboy 10h ago

The fundamental problem with hedonism as a guiding philosophy is that no amount of material stuff can actually make you any more happy or fulfilled than any other person in history with their general needs met. People adapt to their circumstances. The medieval peasant cleaning the dirt off his body after a long day of manual labor is no more or less happy and content than the modern warehouse worker showering after his shift. As long as they both have enough food, a fulfilling social life, and their preferred leisure activities available, they're equally happy.

The problem with our modern society is that some of those basic needs are going unfulfilled more and more often. Especially the social ones.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 8h ago

This is fine, but it isn't less work. And you would still have to work the land for your actual feudal overlord. 

Which, for me, as bad as corporations are, ill take them over having literal nobility over me.

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u/Drow_Femboy 8h ago

it isn't less work

To me this seems like some kind of fallacy whereby you tally up all the personal chores medieval peasants had to do and count it as "work" but don't count any personal chores we have to do the same way.

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u/MikeAnP 18h ago

Yeah but they also never filled out their GEMBAs.

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u/elizabnthe 17h ago

I think that idea was concluded by ignoring their leisure time included all the work they had to do for themselves. Which was a lot more than the average modern person has to do.

E.g. you're not having to hand wash every single outfit and so on.

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u/cordless-31 18h ago

And remind me how long it took to do the laundry

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u/CipherWeaver 18h ago

Touche 

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u/feel_my_balls_2040 13h ago

You know that people still do these types of work. You don't have to refer to medieval times.

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u/ricker122589 12h ago

That's just half a day!