• LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I define “free time” as “time where I am able to do whatever comes to my mind, within reason”. I cannot scratch my ass in a commuter train, I cannot decide to be alone, I cannot decide to meet a friend while commuting, I cannot play sports in a car, I cannot decide to take a nap on the highway, and so on and so forth.

    Therefore, commuting time is not free time. It is time where I am not 100% occupied with some task, true, but tbh I could describe a lot of work days in the same way.

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      5 days ago

      I didn’t say it was? I don’t recall using the term “free time” at all. I said it could be used productively. Just because the use of certain stretches of time are limited doesn’t mean there aren’t fulfilling uses.