And yet with so much daily leisure time, people report feeling bored. In fact, rates of reported boredom have been rising over time, suggesting that the free time we have fails to nourish us. We are more bored now than ever befor

He suggests we need to fundamentally reconsider what we’re measuring. It’s not about simply rejecting productivity gains but capturing them “as genuine improvements to human flourishing instead of feeding them back into an endless cycle of escalation”. This might mean measuring ‘time affluence over output volume’ – free time as a success metric – o... See more