[Apocryphon]

I never realized that Robert Owens' quote codifying eight hours of work is from 1817. Good golly.

Our entire industrial mental model of work comes from at least two hundred years ago.

[pessimizer]

That wasn't an industrial mental model, it was a utopian socialist proposal that took a century and a lot of blood to win.

[Apocryphon]

I mean that the mental model dates from the early Industrial Revolution (I previously thought that it wasn't created until the Gilded Age or the Victorian era), and is overdue to be revised given the rise of white collar work.