Over the past twenty-five years the introduction of laborsaving technologies has greatly reduced the average amount of time a worker needs to produce a given output, potentially both reducing the number of hours each worker works each week and increasing workers' leisure time correspondingly
The average amount of leisure time per worker, however, has increased at only half the rate at which the average hourly output per worker has grown
Workers, on average, spend more money on leisure activities today than they did twenty-five years ago.