>well, everything is a choice if we start going that route. Exactly. And I would add that part of the point posed by the article is that we seem to be overly b

>well, everything is a choice if we start going that route. Exactly. And I would add that part of the point posed by the article is that we seem to be overly busy, given whatever life objectives/circumstances we have. So, given that a person choses to have, say, a job and 2 kids, then they are busier on average than in times past. So, the question isn't whether an individual person can choose to be less busy. The question is why do we tend to be busier than ever on average, when we should theoretically have more leisure time.