1974, the U.S. Department of the Interior sounded the alarm, declaring that “Leisure, thought by many to be the epitome of paradise, may well become the most perplexing problem of the future.”12 Despite these concerns, there was little doubt about the course history would ultimately take. By around 1970, sociologists talked confidently of the imminent “end of work.” Mankind was on the brink of a veritable leisure
