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The convenience thing makes sense. The rest however, not so much. If I had more free time I'd spend more on my hobbies and interests.
I think it's more that change is scary. Companies have done 8 hour days with 5 days a week, and it's worked. There's risk in breaking that formula.
I also don't buy into that stat of only actually getting about 3 hours of work done in an 8 hour day. My work place has a job and knock policy and everyone averages around 8 hours. Even if that stat is right, perhaps people need a level of down time and socialisation time during the day, rather than having to work like a machine for 3 hours.
The point is that if you have free time you end up doing hobbies like breeding hot peppers, geocaching, painting, playing a musical instrument, etc not paying for Netflix subscriptions, buying alcohol to numb the pain of your existence and dropping fat stacks in Macdonald's because you're too exhausted to make a proper meal.
A lot of hobbies are ludicrously expensive tho right? I mean I feel like people would still be spending the money left and right. And probably traveling a lot more too. But maybe this is saying they want to keep the money in a specific sector or something idk
Yeah but, not as expensive as being broke and miserable.
I think its more since you don't have enough free time you spend an half hour or an hour watching a show maybe while getting housework done over doing a hobby.