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  • Cheesus@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlMy wife every two weeks:
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    5 months ago

    A few reasons I clean before they arrive:

    • They’re not paid great so I’d rather not inconvenience them too much and let them get into their next gig faster.
    • I don’t want them putting non dishwasher items in the dishwasher and potentially ruining them.
    • You will lose items because they’re organizing your place and will put stuff not where you expect it.
    • They tend to do a deeper clean when they’re not focusing on cleaning up the smaller stuff you can take care of yourself









  • You’re right they were not paid money, but they arguably were provided more goods for their services starting in the 15th century. In western Europe.

    Eastern and Western Europe behaved very differently when it came to serfdom. Serfdom, as you described it, began to decline starting in western Europe in the 15th century and was pretty much gone by the 17th century. Meanwhile Eastern Europe started a rise in serfdom as you described it in the 16th century.

    Serfs started to get better conditions thanks to the bubonic plague and increasing workers power over lords. In western Europe they were paid a higher share of the crop as a result. They still had a bad life overall, but it got ever so slightly better.

    The whole notion that they had 150 days off isn’t even necessarily accurate either because record keeping is so bad from those eras on time worked. It’s not enough data to provide an accurate assessment of working hours.