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Job Satisfaction Peaked With the Village Blacksmith

Job Satisfaction Peaked With the Village Blacksmith

modernity remains vastly over-rated

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medieval blacksmith making a sword

The tremendous societal journey from manual labor to 9-5 desk work (or retail work) resulted in a reduction in average weekly work hours and increased leisure time worldwide after World War II. America, more or less, invented the consumer spending-driven economy (i.e., the post-industrial economy).

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