Medieval Peasants had more days off work then us, if you have to show up to work because of a combination of property tax and vagrancy laws then you are a slave
Discussion
They say about a million years ago the human population was shut down completely to just over a thousand humans. I wonder how many days off they had.
I have some doubt about this.
I know in some places (eg monarchic France) the church could actually lay taxes, and owned substantial farmland.