[Openurmind]

Reminds me of the John Wayne movie “the Cowboys”.

“Up and at em! We’re burning daylight!”

And it was still dark...

[fr_freak]

“Up and at em! We’re burning daylight!”

And it was still dark...

That's the thing though. Getting up at the crack of dawn, or just before so you'd be ready to go at dawn, made sense when the only real light you'd get was the sun. At night, the best you could hope to do was perhaps read or write by candlelight. The vast majority of the means of making a living required one to be outside in the light.

But today, most people make their living in a way that almost requires artificial light - people in offices, computer rooms, warehouses, vehicles, etc. There is, therefore, no technical advantage to working strictly during daylight. If you are a computer tech, for example, there is no advantage to getting up at 5am every morning like you're a freaking farmer or something, yet, for some odd reason, you'll still see a lot of people thump their chests and virtue signal about how they are up at the crack of dawn every day. I personally find people who can't stay awake past 8pm to be incredibly annoying.