Household appliances did not reduce time spent on housework

Evidence

According to an extensive countrywide American study of time use from 1975 involving 2,406 respondents, owners of dishwashing machines spent on average one minute and owners of laundry machines four minutes more at home each day than adults without these appliances, and the vacuum cleaner saved only one minute. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 240

Categorization

• CANDY: A counterintuitive, concrete, easily-retold finding: washing machines made people spend MORE time at home, not less.
• XREF: connects to: Incorporating robots can reduce household labor demands. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 712; Household labor-saving devices do not reduce household time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 240

Broader Connections

• Incorporating robots can reduce household labor demands. #contradicts (0.85) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 712