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Friday, May 30, 2008

Online, TV, the Labor-Leisure Tradeoff, Your Health, Congestion, and the 21st Century

AS finds a nifty article.

Online addictions are taking over:


Television continues to be a big part of leisure time [fascinating link]:

  • Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion


How big?

Well, compare with the ever growing waste that is traffic:

  • Traffic congestion continues to worsen in American cities of all sizes, creating a $78 billion annual drain on the U.S. economy in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion gallons of wasted fuel—that's 105 million weeks of vacation and 58 fully-loaded supertankers.