Gee I wonder if having more free time leads to observing and thinking more about the current shitty state of the world.
Nah it must be the free time thats the problem.
Pretty sure it’s the opposite. People are just so alienated and absorbed into the capitalist system that if they have their own free time they feel unproductive.
This is actually true for me lol
NEET life just ends up with me falling into aimless depression like symptoms.
I'm extremely happy when I have fulfilling work. The key problem here is that most people are alienated from their labor, so fulfilling work rarely exists.
In my experience, the idea that free time is as tiresome as work is utter bullshit
I have an elderly family member who is scared of retiring because he doesn't know what to do with himself if he isn't working. It's his whole identity. I find that really fucking sad in a way.
Using excess discretionary time on productive activities can help bolster well-being, study says
This is a bullshit way to classify "free time". Two of my biggest hobbies are gardening and woodworking, do those not count as my free time because they're productive? I would love to do those things all day instead of work, but unfortunately my health insurance is tied to my job and I'd rather not go bankrupt if I cut a finger off making a table.
I realize there are people out there with no hobbies that don't involve staring at a screen, and yeah, I can imagine that too much of that doesn't feel great and it's probably why you get people who don't know what to do with themselves after they retire. That doesn't mean free time is bad, it means people need better hobbies.
Meanwhile data from the National Study of the Changing Workforce, carried out between 1992 and 2008, revealed that beyond a certain point, having more free time was no longer linked to greater subjective wellbeing, but it did not dip – possibly because few of the participants reported having more than five hours of free time a day.
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These studies always use self reported data. That data and the idea of "free time" is socioeconomically contingent
Although an abundance of discretionary time spent on solo and nonproductive activities did produce a negative effect on subjective wellbeing, discretionary time spent on activities that were social or productive did not,” they wrote.
The fact that this isn't part of the main headline shows you what the overall slant is. Anecdotally, 100% of the people I know that aren't doing something worthwhile in their free time is because they don't feel that it is a hobby that they can carry forward consistently in relation to how long they work, at their job or outside their job. Sometimes you work 8-12 hours a day, go home and are dead as fuck, or you got family that needs taking care of. When you do get time to wind down, your body is completely checked out.
Of course, as others have pointed out in this thread, you're conditioned to see work as being imperative in this neoliberal order. It's the reason why you keep waking up thinking you've overslept and are going to be late for work. It goes against what's good for your body, but you just force your body to live with that burden.
Reminder that there is no such thing as unalienated leisure time in a socioeconomic system cucked to the elite where work is perceived as the commoner's worth. Leisure time can only be a blessing on mandated rest periods, like holidays and weekends, or when the wage-based neoliberal order is replaced by something better.
The thoughts of Matt on the grill pill cushvlog episode.
I've been seeing this article non-stop for about a month now. Well sus.
