Across the US population, people spend 3.5 hours per day on work and 5.2 hours on leisure and sports[1]. Remember that a substantial part of the population doe

Across the US population, people spend 3.5 hours per day on work and 5.2 hours on leisure and sports[1]. Remember that a substantial part of the population does not work much (children, students, retirees, unemployed), so it's untrue that nobody has much free time today. Even the full-time employed spend on average 3.27 hours per day on leisure and sports on weekdays and 5.94 hours per day on weekends and holidays[2]. Checking the same survey from 20 years ago[3], average work has decreased a bit (was 3.69 hours per day) and average leisure and sports increased a bit (was 5.11 hours per day). [1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t01.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t01.htm [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11B.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11B.htm [3] https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1_2003.pdf https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1_2003.pdf