I think you need to take your comparison further back. As I understand it, before the Industrial Revolution, people had plenty of free time. For instance, looking at the Middle Ages, many spent the morning tending to their fields and then the rest of the day was theirs.

Yes but my point was not about a specific time in the past, it was about how that free time wasn’t captured by the market - in ways it is now and will continue to be in the future.

Yeah, but they were all illiterate and politically powerless, not to mention spiritually oppressed, so what were the actual, tangible options for things they could do with ‘their day’? They didn’t even own their own land.