None of the above actually.
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twitter polls have too few options! what's your explanation?
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Yep, inequality is another plausible hypothesis, just wasn't allowed to add more poll options.
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I think a combination of all four options, plus maybe people choose to have less leisure than they could, either because we have a drive to work a certain amount or we generally choose more material consumption over leisure.
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Twitter wouldn't let me add a fifth poll option! "people prefer consumption to leisure" was another of my hypotheses.
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Mostly b. and d. b is largely invisible because it's tv. "According to a Nielsen report, United States adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day on average (35.5 h/week, slightly more than 77 days per year)." d. is cultural demand for status marks
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I think c is a factor but mostly in the same places where d is very much a factor. The most blatant example is how much you have to work to afford a desirable school/house, which to a large but not total extent are status goods, and which are priced up by rent-seekers.
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Though seemingly, for people in academia, tech, finance, or law, hours seem to be higher, or at least not decreasing. 40h weeks or less is the norm elsewhere. An interesting case would be what happened in France after a 35h week was decreed by law.
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