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The new age of leisure

1930: life expectancy at birth 60 years-525,000 hours

Work: 100,000 hours

Sleep: 175,000 hours

Childhood, schooling, leisure, hobbies, sport: 250,000 hours

The year 2000: life expectancy at birth 75 years-657,000 hours

Sleep:219,000 hours

Work: 50,000 hours

Childhood, lifelong education, leisure, hobbies, sport, travel: 388,000 hours

* Calculations based on The Age of Unreason, by Charles Handy, published by Century Hutchinson, London, England.





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