[dutchbookmaker]

Or as if people use to work 12 hours in a coal mine and have all this energy for dancing and piano practice after.

Modern people are just spoiled and largely delusional.

I had a bad work day yesterday but compared to anything else I would have been doing 50 years ago it was absolutely nothing in terms of stress or energy.

[BriggyDwiggs42]

A 12 hour work day is probably not at all the historical norm, and only existed broadly after the industrial revolution.