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Are you American? Or somewhere where 40 hours plus is normal or time off is 2 weeks or less. I ask because it also seems prevalent in this thread to imagine th
by aiisjustanif 5y ago
Are you American? Or somewhere where 40 hours plus is normal or time off is 2 weeks or less.
I ask because it also seems prevalent in this thread to imagine that free time is a waste, and we ignore places where more free time does exist already.
People do more than just TV.
It’s more time spent in with your community. Gardening and spending time outdoors. Time spent exercising or taking a long walk. Spending more time with my child in their formative years. Making music or painting to stimulate my mind differently than the usual work. Reading many books.
What is production, without free time is. What is production, without a life to enjoy.
An active community, body, or brain is not recreation, it’s oxygen.
- jpttsn 5y agoI think these are things people like to think of themselves as doing with their free time: gardening, long walks on the beach, writing the next great non-American novel. When I look at what people do off work, it’s mostly TV. They paint like once, then throw out the art supplies. Their kids are watching YouTube on iPads. Participation in the “community” amounts to celebrity gossip, out-group fear-mongering, or inane small talk.
- aiisjustanif 5y agoI speak from experience. Your bubble is not the same a many others. Especially Europe or Canada, Argentina, some of Southern Mexico, etc.
- aiisjustanif 5y agoI’m speaking from experience. I garden myself. Many people do. Why does it have to be a great novel? The bubble you live in and describe does not sound like all bubble or even most of them. Canada, Europe, Argentina, many places where I don’t see what you described.