How do technology and economic growth affect our sense of time and the way of spending time?

With technology, work hours decrease and there should be more leisure time. But this is not the case. There are 3 categories of time namely: a.<Tab/>Production time - work b.<Tab/>Consumption time - eating, paying things for personal pleasure or need c.<Tab/>Free time - idleness, doing nothing, lying in bed Modern technological progress has not resulted in more free …showed first 75 words of 275 total…

…showed last 75 words of 275 total…neglect basic social needs because they are economically unproductive. If before we have time surplus, then time affluence, with the arise of technology and what it brings for the world to be competitive and fast-paced, now we have time famine. Economic growth doesn't equate to free time. And technological advances are equated to economic growth and fast consumption. Fast consumption then leads to more production. And all this ties up to have less free time.