The people making predictions all thought that we were going to have a big problem, just finding things to do with all of our leisure time. And, you know, that hasn't exactly happened. Most people today are working longer, not shorter hours. Things like inflation, and competition, and complexity, have changed the picture from what we thought it was going to be. A lot of people now are working two jobs.
Most families have at least two careers.
The demands which are placed on people, are a lot higher today. What a lot of people are calling the margin in our lives, is getting a lot smaller these days. Margin is the free time. It's the discretionary time. There are all sorts of things we used to be able to do, which we're now to busy to handle any more.