Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
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Literally everyone is overworked and fried, in addition to being depressed about politics. My partner had a job that she got to leave at work, when she was home, she was home, all work resources were stuck at work so even if you wanted to do anything extra, you couldn't. She would read all the time multiple books a month.
Now she works for a tech company and literally never reads. Even if she knocks off at 3, or 4pm out of sheer frustration with her project, or upper management, she's so emotionally exhausted she doesn't want to do half the stuff she used to after work when she was at the previous job.
But hey, the company is making record profits, and she just got a 2% raise after the company not giving raises for a few years