A Day in the Life of Americans
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A Day in the Life of Americans
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#2The animation is a little hard to follow because the "balls" get stuck in different places for a while, and the colors aren't easy to distinguish or attribute to certain activities.
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#3Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people.
Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
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#4Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours).
As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
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#5Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in that actual work. That's the result of a series of choices, and could absolutely be changed. Nothing "required" about it.
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#6If you're mostly interested in the breakdown of time spend, rather than these animations between activities, the charts at the data source are much clearer: https://www.bls.gov/tus/charts.htm
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#7Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
I think people might not be recording their sleeping times accurately in the time use survey they used because there is a cultural desire to be seen as an early riser.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, that has required steady effort.
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
From what I recall, the Hadza (hunter gatherers of Tanzania) work ~6 hours a day. Sure, 8 hours a day is more, but same ballpark.
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#9For me it's very strange to see that a huge portion of the population sleeps until 9am (and a big number even until 10am!). I worked in many countries before and in most workplaces you had to show up at least by 9. Of course there were some exceptions but in general that's how it was.
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#10For me it's very strange to see that a huge portion of the population sleeps until 9am (and a big number even until 10am!). I worked in many countries before and in most workplaces you had to show up at least by 9. Of course there were some exceptions but in general that's how it was.
Yeah, well there's a lot of businesses that operate late into the night. You think 24/7 pharmacies, retail, restaurants, etc operate themselves? There's also emergency personnel, security, even night construction crews.