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by alpinisme 260 days ago
You need clock based wage labor for that. Which only really starts with the Industrial Revolution
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Small aside someone might find interesting. Hopefully not offtopic. In Catalonia there used to be a thriving textile industry. Workers would work on a garment and fold it when it was time to go home, to unfold it the next day and resume work. That action (to fold) is in Catalan plegar. Still today people use that verb to mean being done with work today. "Quan plegues?" meaning when do you finish work, for example.
farmers plowing a field do similar even though the sun is their clock.