Even if accurate to late medevil time and even that's questionable this is very much not true for the vast majority of human existence.

Marshall Sahlins: "A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is more sleep in the daytime per capita than in any other condition of society."

A.R. Chayanov, in The Theory of Peasant Economy, showed that "precapitalist peoples will engage in wage work with a particular objective (sometimes called a 'target income') in mind (wedding expenses, the purchase of a mule) and will, contrary to microeconomic logic, work less when the wage is higher, as they will meet their objective that much sooner." (quote from James C. Scott's Against the Grain, but Chayanov is his source.)

Capitalism is when industry and the more industry you have the more capitalister you are

::: spoiler Eight centuries of annual hours

13th century - Adult male peasant, U.K.: 1620 hours
Calculated from Gregory Clark's estimate of 150 days per family, assumes 12 hours per day, 135 days per year for adult male ("Impatience, Poverty, and Open Field Agriculture", mimeo, 1986)

14th century - Casual laborer, U.K.: 1440 hours

Calculated from Nora Ritchie's estimate of 120 days per year. Assumes 12-hour day. ("Labour conditions in Essex in the reign of Richard II", in E.M. Carus-Wilson, ed., Essays in Economic History, vol. II, London: Edward Arnold, 1962).

Middle ages - English worker: 2309 hours

Juliet Schor's estime of average medieval laborer working two-thirds of the year at 9.5 hours per day

1400-1600 - Farmer-miner, adult male, U.K.: 1980 hours

Calculated from Ian Blanchard's estimate of 180 days per year. Assumes 11-hour day ("Labour productivity and work psychology in the English mining industry, 1400-1600", Economic History Review 31, 23 (1978).

1840 - Average worker, U.K.: 3105-3588 hours

Based on 69-hour week; hours from W.S. Woytinsky, "Hours of labor," in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. III (New York: Macmillan, 1935). Low estimate assumes 45 week year, high one assumes 52 week year

1850 - Average worker, U.S.: 3150-3650 hours

Based on 70-hour week; hours from Joseph Zeisel, "The workweek in American industry, 1850-1956", Monthly Labor Review 81, 23-29 (1958). Low estimate assumes 45 week year, high one assumes 52 week year

1987 - Average worker, U.S.: 1949 hours

From The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet B. Schor, Table 2.4

1988 - Manufacturing workers, U.K.: 1856 hours

Calculated from Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Office of Productivity and Technology :::

Let me guess, they're taking the wins done by labor organizers and saying it's capitalism's doing?

Koch? Yeap. She's the daughter of the dead Koch brother.

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Right about now, the dead Koch brother / Check it out now, the dead Koch brother [x5]
Right about now, the dead Koch brother / Right about now, 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now (Uh)

Song

I entirely forgot how few lyrics there are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo