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Some argue our hunter-gatherer ancestors had far more leisure time than us. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society https://en.wikipe

• ef4 11y ago
  There is an insidious survivorship bias here: all that leisure time was only enjoyed by the ones who survived. A society where the mean lifetime is 35 that works 20 hours per week gives people significantly less total leisure time than a society where the mean lifetime is 85 that works 50 hours per week. Or in other words: all those dead infants got no leisure time at all.