And video games, and Netflix, and cheap travel, and Kindles, and CrossFit, and hackathons... People went to cafes in part because of the lack of options. We ha

And video games, and Netflix, and cheap travel, and Kindles, and CrossFit, and hackathons... People went to cafes in part because of the lack of options. We have multiple huge industries in the modern world designed around making extremely appealing content for every possible interest. All driven by real-time analytics created by some of the best minds in applied statistics, game theory, and psychology. In order to give people free time, you'd need to eliminate the things that are currently filling our time.