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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Workday in 1664

In 1664, a man named Richard Palmer paid a church to ring its bell at 4 AM every single day — just to make sure workers got out of bed. This is the story of how humanity went from working 2.5 days a week to working 5, 6, or 7 — and why almost everything you believe about "hard work" was invented by someone who profited from it. From the Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari — who worked roughly 15 hours a week and spent the rest of their time resting, socializing and doing absolutely nothing productive — to the medieval European peasant who took "Saint Monday" off because weekends weren't enough, to the factory floors of the Industrial Revolution where clocks became weapons of control: this is the real history of work. We trace how industrialists like Richard Arkwright redesigned human life around the machine, how Josiah Wedgwood pioneered workplace surveillance, how the Haymarket affair of 1886 turned the fight for the 8-hour day into a matter of life and death, and how Henry Ford figured out that paying workers more and working them less could actually make him richer. In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted we'd be working 15-hour weeks by 2030. He was wrong. This video explores why. Entirely generated with AI — script, narration, and visuals — as a historical reconstruction experiment. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — The Bell That Started It All (1664) 01:44 — The Modern Cage 02:16 — How Hunter-Gatherers Actually Lived 04:40 — Medieval Europe: When Workers Had 150 Holidays 07:28 — The Clock: A Weapon of Control 09:20 — The Factory System Changes Everything 11:12 — Arkwright's Machine That Never Sleeps 13:04 — Wedgwood and the Birth of Workplace Surveillance 14:00 — The Death of Saint Monday 15:12 — The Fight for the 8-Hour Day 16:08 — Haymarket: The Price of Resistance 16:48 — Henry Ford's Calculated Generosity 17:52 — The 40-Hour Week Becomes Law 18:08 — What Keynes Got Wrong 19:20 — Back to the Bell 🔔 Subscribe for more AI-reconstructed history documentaries. #history #work #laborhistory #industrialrevolution #8hourday #haymarket #henryford #documentary #aihistory