Time is Worth Wasting

Confronting the harsh reality of a productive life.

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If we were to time travel prior to the invention of the mechanical clock, we would experience a radical shift in people’s relationship with time. Most people worked in agricultural labor, and their sense of time was more fluid than today. Their work corresponded to available sunlight and season. Their leisure time would be intimately tied to season and harvest. Their…