@Jedigirl
"In today’s hustle and bustle world, it’s easy to assume that we are all, by and large, working more than ever. But is that really the case?

...average working hours declined dramatically for workers in early-industrialized economies over the last 150 years. In 1870, workers in most of these countries worked more than 3,000 hours annually — equivalent to a grueling 60–70 hours each week for 50 weeks per year"

https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#are-we-working-more-than-ever