my cemetery has tons of historical correspondence by employees going back almost 200 years and i like to read it and make myself insane thinking about how much more shit i am expected to do in a day than these people and how i am not even actually making that much more money than them
I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.
I’ve had the same thought about insurance underwriting, which was done by hand until spreadsheets became common. How did you do six revisions on a “firm” quote when everything was pen, paper, and lookup books? Answer: you didn’t, and sales or account management didn’t like it they could suck eggs
