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ELI5: Why is getting up early considered such a virtue?
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It's largely a holdover from a time when things took a lot longer to get done, or when everything was manual. If you ran a bakery, you had to get up and do everything early - before machines, before large, easy refrigeration, before reliable ovens. That meant getting up early and taking a lot of time to get ready. For more agricultural societies, getting up early meant getting things *done*. Sleeping in meant work went undone which could potentially cause problems, especially for animals. So the ability to get up early was considered very reliable, since a lot of work called for it.