Why are Adults so busy?
Well this is clearly written by someone without committments and children.  Young adults <i>used</i> to be having children.<p>With young kids around, the laundry and responsibility for dependents figures become hours <i>daily,</i> not weekly.  When they&#x27;re a bit older there&#x27;s less cleaning but now you&#x27;re running them around more and ensuring they meet their commitments.<p>With more gadgets, chemicals and domestic appliances we&#x27;ve just invented higher standards and hundreds of new things to do.  The to do list is 20x longer, but each task takes less time.<p>Whilst we might not want to return to weekly bathing and keeping a room, only for visitors, &quot;for best&quot; of Victorian times, some rebalance might be a good idea.  Might even turn out to be good for skin and gut bacteria and the rise of eczema etc.<p>What we don&#x27;t have, as it&#x27;s been gadgeted away, is downtime.  Kids, and many adults, today can not cope with being bored (the normal state for kids in the 70s for perhaps an hour or two daily).  I saw that very clearly with my own kids and all their friends over the years.  What used to be a trigger for inventing a game, building a den, or making something new with lego is far more filled with minutes on YT.  More and more we&#x27;ve filled every second with things to do - by &quot;necessity&quot; and by choice.<p>In trying to make life easier most of us no longer seem to have time (or often inclination) to just chill watching the world go by for an hour a day.<p>Seems it all got too fragmented.