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Re:31% of American adults are online almost constantly by andsoitis on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:44PM (#35417118)
> It's false that people now have more leisure time, in fact we have less than ever before.

This chart and supporting material argue that over the last 150 years annual working hours per worker drastically declining. That lets me believe that leisure time is increasing. https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever

Where do you think they're wrong?

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Re:31% of American adults are online almost constantly by throw_away1525 on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:26AM (#35425350)
I am not comparing our current leisure time to the time we had at the beginning of the industrial revolution and onward. We probably do have more free time than we did 150 years ago. I'm comparing our leisure time to the leisure time we had before agriculture was invented - that's why studying hunter gatherer tribes is so interesting. These also happens to be the conditions we evolved for.
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