By &quot;relaxing and socializing&quot;, what exactly do you mean? Do you think they opened a good book and a bottle of Bordeaux?<p>Leisure time isn&#x27;t valuable unless you have something to fill it with.<p>Plus, most of those statistics about historically higher &quot;leisure time&quot; are misleading, because anything that wasn&#x27;t professional work was probably personal work; mending clothes, performing the brutal labor associated with pre-industrial cooking, etc. I&#x27;m also skeptical of any such claims directed at pre-civilization humans, because it&#x27;s not like they could do a very good job of writing down what they did that day.