The New Leisure Class (Not Who You Think)

“In 1965, leisure was pretty much equally distributed across classes. People of the same age, sex, and family size tended to have about the same amount of leisure, regardless of their socioeconomic status. But since then, two things have happened. First, leisure (like income) has increased dramatically across the board. Second, though everyone’s a winner, the biggest winners are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.”