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biotech on Nov 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense

> Do you have a source to back it up?

It seems unreasonable to expect others to provide sources when you don't source your own information.

hasenj on Nov 20, 2010 [–]

I'm not the one who came up with an outrageous claim.

akgerber on Nov 20, 2010 | [–]

It's pretty much at the level of common knowledge that for most of human history, the primary human occupation was food production.

hasenj on Nov 20, 2010 | | [–]

"Before the industrial revolution" is only like 150 years (or so) ago.

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