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Rice farming is much more labor intensive than wheat farming which helped Eastern rice cultures to have a strong cultural work ethic (Paddy rice required twice as much labor per hectare as wheat farming.<ref>[https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/vol4/iss1/7/ The Rice Theory of Culture, Thomas Talhelm, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Publication Date 1-3-2022</ref>).
Rice farming is much more labor intensive than wheat farming which helped Eastern rice cultures to have a strong cultural work ethic (Paddy rice required twice as much labor per hectare as wheat farming.<ref>[https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/vol4/iss1/7/ The Rice Theory of Culture, Thomas Talhelm, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Publication Date 1-3-2022</ref>).
The [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) indicates concerning some areas [[Western World]] during some periods in the agrarian age: [https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's] and [https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html#hours 8 centuries of working hours]. [[Medieval warm period]]
The [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) indicates concerning some areas [[Western World]] during some periods in the agrarian age: [https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's] and [https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html#hours 8 centuries of working hours].
Europe is filled with many large church buildings which required many man-hours to construct.
Thomas Gale Moore of the [[Hoover Institution]] wrote about the Medieval Warm Period:
{{Cquote|The three centuries beginning with the eleventh, during which the climate became distinctly more benign, witnessed a profound revolution which, by the late 1200s had transformed the landscape into an economy filled with merchants, vibrant towns and great fairs. Crop failures became less frequent; new territories were brought under control. With a more clement climate and a more reliable food supply, the population mushroomed.
The historian Charles Van Doren claimed that: "the ... three centuries, from about 1000 to about 1300, became one of the most optimistic, prosperous, and progressive periods in European history." All across Europe, the population went on an unparalleled building spree, erecting at huge cost spectacular cathedrals and public edifices. Ponderous Romanesque churches gave way to soaring Gothic cathedrals. Virtually all the magnificent religious shrines that we visit in awe today were started by the optimistic populations of the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, although many remained unfinished for centuries.
Throughout the continent, economic activity blossomed. Banking, insurance, and finance developed; a money economy became well entrenched; manufacturing of textiles expanded to levels never seen before. Farmers in medieval England launched a thriving wine industry. Good wines demand warm springs free of frosts, substantial summer warmth and sunshine without too much rain, and sunny days in the fall. Winters cannot dip below zero Fahrenheit for any significant period. The northern limit for grapes during the Middle Ages was about 300 miles above the current commercial wine areas in France and Germany.
The medieval warm period, which started a century earlier in Asia, benefited the rest of the globe as well. From the ninth through the thirteenth centuries, farming spread into northern portions of Russia. In the Far East, Chinese and Japanese farmers migrated north into Manchuria, the Amur Valley and northern Japan. The Vikings founded colonies in Iceland and Greenland, then actually green. Scandinavian seafarers discovered "Vinland" along the East Coast of North America.<ref>[https://web.stanford.edu/~moore/HistoryEcon.html Warmer is Richer] by Thomas Gale Moore, [[Hoover Institution]], Stanford University</ref>}}
[[National Review]] reported in 2012 concerning the [[United States]]: "The more hours Americans work, the happier they report themselves to be. Only 11 percent of Americans say they wish they could spend a lot less time on their jobs." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293615/liberalism-immoral-mona-charen Is Liberalism Immoral?], National Review, 2012</ref>
[[National Review]] reported in 2012 concerning the [[United States]]: "The more hours Americans work, the happier they report themselves to be. Only 11 percent of Americans say they wish they could spend a lot less time on their jobs." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293615/liberalism-immoral-mona-charen Is Liberalism Immoral?], National Review, 2012</ref>