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The internet has extended the working hours of many people I work with in a significant way. It has not, that I know, extended the working hours of our letter carrier, the staff at the grocery store, the police on patrol, most medical professionals, etc.

It is easy on these forums to imagine that everyone is working in a similar environment.

> What % of the workforce was still agrarian in the late 19th century?

They worked pretty hard, too. In Virgil's Georgic I, there occur the lines "toil conquered all,/Remorseless toil, and poverty's shrewd push/In times of hardship." Things hadn't changed much until the 19th Century.