How Medieval Pesants Shouldn't Be Under The Spotlight For A Simpler Life

 Recently, many various books and people online have been referencing the time during the middle-ages as a time when everything was simpler, and as a time that many believe our society should return to. The article references a specific tweet that blew up a while back by Azie Dungey, which was based off of a 1991 book by sociologist Juliet Schor. This tweet claimed that peasants in medieval times (around the year 1000) worked less hours then we do today. Understandably, this caused a lot of people to react strongly, and the tweet to go viral, causing a lot of people to develop opinions that we should revert back to the middle ages. This article instead provides evidence about more recent discoveries made since the release of that book, that say that if you take into account one: that workers in the middle ages still had to work during their holidays, just not as much, and two: they had no weekends. Taking this into account, they actually worked far more hours then us, but adding on to that, living conditions were much worse, work was much harder, and pretty much all other eases of living we take for granted today didn't even exist back then. The article then ends out with saying that we should be happy with the life we currently live, because when you actually look at all aspects of life in the middle ages, it pales in comparison.

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