>>12789639But isn't it the other way around?
Sure, there's plenty of stuff to do around a farm, but ultimately, it's less than a 40h/week work schedule and when you're finished you don't have something like a TV or smartphone to constantly stream useless distracting information into your brain.
>>12790021Keep in mind that outside of some specific civilisations less than 5% of the population did the actual fighting.
And even then, usually the seasoned guys were put in front.
And even then, most battles saw very small losses during the actual fighting, most people were killed once one side freaked out and decided to rout. This is a speculation, but after the rout, probably mostly the really tough guys and psychos went after the fleeing soldiers to cut them all down.
