Medieval chores weren't putting clothes in the washing machine or giving the bathroom a wipe, they were weaving and sewing clothes by hand and then laboriously washing them in the stream, and hauling buckets of shit. Everything was much harder and much less pleasant, and that was how you spent your 'free time'.
Leave it to modern people to 'wish they'd live in mediveal times'
The point is they had all of that to do by hand, and still managed to "work for hire" less time than us in a society where over 90% of the stuff is automated.
You have a misconception of peasant life I believe. They had far more free time for socializing than you'd ever believe and the work they had to do day to day was not this slog you envision.
Medieval chores weren't putting clothes in the washing machine or giving the bathroom a wipe, they were weaving and sewing clothes by hand and then laboriously washing them in the stream, and hauling buckets of shit. Everything was much harder and much less pleasant, and that was how you spent your 'free time'.
Leave it to modern people to 'wish they'd live in mediveal times'
The point is they had all of that to do by hand, and still managed to "work for hire" less time than us in a society where over 90% of the stuff is automated.
You have a misconception of peasant life I believe. They had far more free time for socializing than you'd ever believe and the work they had to do day to day was not this slog you envision.