Citādti - Leisure

..."Americans used to work themselves to the bone for material necessities and to rise up out of constant struggle so their children wouldn`t have to. Leisure was somethong you attained when you reached a certain income level. Today, a differenct dynamic has taken shape: For the first time in history, the more we are paid, the more hours we work. Paradoxically, perhaps, we do this now because among the luckiest of us the rewards for working are so great, they make the "oppurtunity cost" of not working all the greater. the rich are working harder than ever. (Even those born to great wealth now feel the pressure to work for work`s sake.) Rather, leisure is something for the poor. This seemingly arcane economic measure - the income elasticity of leisure - represents a fundamental change in how many of us live; and obviously, this change has affected not just we work, but also how we play, how we love, how we raise our children - how we live."



Dalton Conley "Elsewhere, U.S.A"