Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Twenty years from now, people will have more time for leisure activities.
20年后，人们是否会有更多的业余时间。不同的人持有不同的观点。
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Leisure activities are those which people enjoy when they have free time, something not in abundance for most individuals. This, however, will change in the future as people will surely have ample time to participate in leisure activities twenty years from now.
In the future, many more people will work in their homes than now, which allows them to have more time to spend on leisure activities. A move away from an office environment will surely present more opportunities to relax. My father spends an hour each morning and evening going to work and then returning home. If he worked at home, he could spend those extra two hours doing something relaxing. As fewer people work in offices, their extra hours for leisure activities will increase.
Machines will free people to do the things they want. Twenty years from now, machines will be doing more everyday activities that now involve human labor. Devices with smart technology will likely become more prevalent. Refrigerators might know when there is no milk or eggs, so they will call the supermarket to have them delivered. Payment for this service will be taken out of a person's account automatically. Since people will have fewer jobs and errands to do, they will naturally get to relax more.
The days of employees being forced to work large numbers of overtime hours will also come to an end. Governments will pass and enforce laws restricting companies from overworking their employees. My uncle sometimes works sixty or more hours a week. Governments will ensure that this kind of labor exploitation does not happen to employees in the future. With better labor laws, people will have more time to do the activities they want to do.
It is my belief that, twenty years from now, people will have more time for leisure activities since they will spend more time at home, not have to do various jobs or errands, and will be protected from overworking by laws. In the future, life will surely be more relaxing for most people.
It would be wonderful if, twenty years from now, people had more leisure time than they currently do. However, I am convinced that as the world moves at a faster pace, the amount of time people have for leisure activities will decrease.
People today are working more than they ever have, and this trend is likely to continue. Companies are continually increasing people's workloads as they push their employees to do more in shorter periods of time. For example, my father often works fifty to sixty hours a week at his job. However, my grandfather typically worked a forty-hour workweek. The trend is for people to work longer hours. Additionally, my father keeps getting more and more work to do at his job, so he is obliged to work longer hours. I am sure that will be the same for me in the future. People should expect to work even more in future years.
Even with the development of new technology, people never seem to have enough time to do what needs to get done. In fact, it seems that people had more leisure time in the past when the world had less technology. So, it stands to reason that more technology will result in even less leisure time. One reason is that all this technology has enabled people to do more things in a day. With more jobs to do, the amount of time spent on leisure activities will naturally decrease.
Finally, people's fast-paced lifestyles leave them too tired at the end of the day to do anything. With the amount of work people have to do increasing, they will simply lack the energy to do anything with that little free time they have. My parents both work hard, so they do not have any energy at the end of the day. As I expect people to work even more in the future than they do now, people will be even more exhausted. Their fatigue would not allow them to dare to engage in any leisure activities.
Unfortunately, twenty years from now, I think people will have less time for leisure activities since they will have more work, not enough time, and will be too tired to do anything when they are not busy. While the future is bright in many fields, it is not very promising with regards to people's leisure time.
