People in the 1960's worked harder than they do today because they were about 50 years younger in the 60's. somebody that was thirty in 1965 is 80 now. A person that is thirty years old, as a rule, is able to work harder than a person that is eighty. This is, quite possibly, the stupidest question I have seen posted on LetsRun.
Schlepping a 50 cm long slide rule to and from school on the NYC Subway during rush hour was a pain in the pupik. Coupled with drafting tools, tubes, 47.834 pounds of books and a bag with my track stuff made the hour commute to Brooklyn Tech a real chore.
Got it so wrong wrote:
1978, Started work at 16 straight from school. Attended night school class and we had to write an essay on how technology and automation would affect how people lived.
General consensus was by the 21st century computers and machines would be doing all the work and people would have to find new leisure activities to fill their time!
WRONG!!!
There were about 37 people running marathons back in those days and 1 guy playing computer games at MIT. I think we've found new leisure activities.
What LennyZ said.
Try doing a 3 martini lunch nowadays and see if you even have a job when you get back to the workplace in the afternoon.
Of course they worked harder. They also died earlier. All the hard manual work that generation did is now done by the Chinese.
Not the hippies.
X-Runner wrote:
They may have worked harder then but got less done.
It was harder to build things.
It was harder to get information.
It was harder to communicate.
It Was harder to cook things.
Now you just stick a frozen pizza in the oven instead of rolling out the dough... Or stick food in the microwave instead of Reheating it on the stove.
Also people in the 60s used to sit around listening to Am radio and play 8 track tapes waiting elvis to come along. They went to the drive in alot.
Generally I think people living in the 60s worked alot harder. Probably walked alot more as well. majority of North Americans now are 90% fat, 5% muscle and 5% bone and when they stand up and look down they cant see there feet because there stomachs are to largE so they roll around everywhere instead walking.