Where did the concept of "getting paid by the hour" actually come from?

The most important breakthrough in human freedom was not a political revolution, but an engineering one.

The invention of the mechanical clock allowed us to transform labor from coerced servitude into a measurable sacrifice.

This technology did more than tell time; it built the foundations of the modern wage economy and ended the era of serfdom.



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Video by Google Gemini based on @Nick Szabo / @NickSzabo4 (RSS Feed) article: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/a-measure-of-sacrifice/