What are we supposed to do?
A modern human life is usually divided between work and leisure. Besides keeping a job, “work” would be all you HAVE to do: studying, child rearing, and…, I’m too lazy to think about other examples. Leisure would be whatever you do because you feel like it and you can and may. I guess our far ancestors were busy most of the time, trying to survive, but when not, they would go “leisure mode”; but their days were not so rigidly structured. Modern humans are so conditioned to their productive quota that their free time feels weird. Maybe their holidays feel like being unemployed or retired, somehow, so they try to work hard on resting in a productive way. The unemployed must feel a great cognitive dissonance. They certainly have a lot of free time, free time is supposed to be enjoyed, but of course they can’t—unless they’re psychopaths, or whatever. The retired (at least the affordably retired) may either be like the productive employed on vacations; or the burnt out worker after a hard...