I like to say, Carpe the Diem, because it butchers the grammar so beautifully.
How much TV does a starving person watch
I've had this same thought. I know people who spend 3 days on the couch watching Netflix, who claim to be poor because there's not much money in their bank account.
If they were genuinely poor they'd be out planting vegetables, lifting rocks at the beach for crabs, setting traps for pigeons or scavenging for road-kill.
Leisure time is a decadent expression of wealth which has only very recently become possible for the common folk.
Very well put. I think it is quite amazing how fast the change from the expectation of having work to the expectation of having leisure has been. For thousands of years we have understood that work is an integral part of our existence - and in the last 50, we have decided it is irrelevant.