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Those holidays were mandatory as in you have to pray, not that you didn't had to work. Medieval peasants had hellish amount of work to do, this meme only account for the field work, ignoring house work, after field work (threshing itself was crazily labour intensive), various feudal duties etc etc.
Both facts presented here are false, we can condemn modern wage slavery enough without ahistorical nonsense.
Why wouldn't it? Domestic labour isn't counted under the current system either
House work as in producing nearly everything they needed and used themselves: clothes, most of tools, furniture, etc.
Also remember that the free peasants (who i assume the meme is about) were not wage workers but petty rural bourgeoisie, yet another reason this meme is bullshit since it compare two classes with essentially different relation to means of production.
Not to mention it stinks with long dead and rotten narodnik vibes.