[gvedem]

> It’s a common fantasy that removing the 40 hours per week of work would cause individuals to suddenly become more outgoing, adventurous, and interesting, but if people aren’t already doing those interesting and outgoing things on the weekends then I don’t think they’d suddenly start doing more of them with the job removed.

Many people spend their weekends doing chores and relaxing--i.e. maintaining. You don't think having even, say, a four day weekend and ample time to go beyond that would result in more people spending more time doing interesting things?

Really?

[PurpleRamen]

The last 2-3 years, many people had much more free time because of home office and other reasons. Did it change things? I don't get that impression. The lively people shifted their places of actions. The boring people remained boring. Instead of doing interesting things, most people started renovating their houses, did more chores, and relaxed more.

[Riverheart]

There was a pandemic that occurred in the last 2-3 years that put a damper on social and outdoor activities. Also home office is less important than how available your work requires you to be. Constantly 5m away from your computer doesn't give you much runway.

[red-iron-pine]

"you don't have to commute, so that means you can be available from 8 to 6! and we know you can't go out many places, so let's do a maintenance window this weekend"

[watwut]

Renovating homes is interesting for a lot of people tho. They like doing that. They are proud about how result looks like. They are engaged, study options etc.