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Date: 7 Nov 2024 20:03:52 GMT
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 11:40:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Spending 8 hours a day including 3 hours of coffee and lunch breaks
> doens't compare with digging up ten tons of soil and wheel barrowing it
> to a donkey cart to build a Roman road.

I worked one summer for a contractor building a new development. Most of 
the work was building leach fields which required pushing wheelbarrows of 
gravel along 2x12 planks to dump in the ditches. In would drive to work 
morning using my palms on the steering wheel since it took a while for my 
fingers to work.

Other tasks were little better, strictly grunt work. It could have been 
1960 or 196 AD.