Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don’t know what will
I think my history teaher mentioned something similar happening in 1700-1800’s Philippines. The Spanish friars would find Filipino farmers resting by 12noon and thought they were lazy. In reality they had been working even nefore the crack of dawn.
Another reason they rested was because the carabao (Philippine water buffalo) were their main beast of burden pulling their plow through mud and soil. Usually by noon it would be too tired to keep working. Farmers would not force carabaos to ocerwork to preserve the animal’s health and their own.
and with this post I begin tagging the three big C’s I face issues with on the daily but ill have to write a massive essay to convince the people in my life that hey maybe theres a trend
