Following on from a couple of threads at least, everyone wants things now, or at least quicker:
So what are people doing with all their “extra” spare time?
Spare time? What’s that then?
Don’t forget working from home, if only for the hours saved by not commuting.
Mostly, on that ‘free time’, people are getting depressed 
I wonder how many people don’t have any time as they are “busy” on social media?
Well, I am as I moderate for 2 companies on their forums, discords and Steam.
I have neither of the devices you listed above except microwave and I don’t use microwave to cook meals. And the rest of the bullet points about audiobooks and movies doesn’t help me so save time. I cook dinner one hour regardless of how many podcasts I manage to listen to in the background.
The robot vacuum cleaner is not saving any time, it’s doing work not done before
As stereotypical geriatric millenial, no TV and no MW oven in this household. And yes, everyone needs to know about it. Did I already mention it 15 times? A little reminder doesn’t hurt hahaha
Automatic food makers: we should have a dough mixer by now, because that’s the reason we don’t bake that much stuff. I happily chop onions while crying, but I can’t stand mixing dough. Again, a mixer wouldn’t save time, but allow to do something not done before.
Robot lawnmowers? Sir, this is Switzerland. “We” live in apartments.
I despise home automation. Last Christmas I ended up pulling out smart light switches and installing dumb old ones at my parent’s house. Damned switches were set to power the light on after a power interruption. So, parents sometimes found the lights on after some weeks of travel. It was technically possible to create a user account, connect the central unit to the internet, access every switch and change the settings but I lost my patience when the damned “smart system” told me I could not use the mobile phone internet but a more stable one…f****!!!
The irony is that at work I automate processes and protocols, maintain and sporadically develop a calculation software with 300+ customers, plenty of coding for data processing and visualization. But, keep that damned automation out of my home, my car and my bicycle 
Ooh, that sounds very futuristic! Just speak into a machine and out pops beans on toast, or steak and chips. I wish! Would only work if it went shopping, too.
I am the “automatic food maker” in our house.
I would have loved to have a robot vacuum cleaner if I lived in an apartment. In a three-story house with not much space and about a quarter of it is taken up by stairs, it just doesn’t make sense.
They should develop a stair vacuum cleaner that combines the technology of a robot cleaner with a slinky. 
My few forays into home automation actually resulted mostly in changing the kind of work I had to do, but with a less satisfying outcome. In stead of doing things that gave me a sort of zen pleasure, a respite from my tied-to-a-screen work, I found myself having to engage in frustrating supervision of those automated ‘work savers’. I did not see meaningful free time generated, rather just a shifting of tasks.
I love to cook, I love to work in my garden. I get a real sense of satisfaction in seeing the things I create take shape. And when I am done, I love to curl up with a good book. While audio books and videos have their place, they do not bring me the same sense of relaxation that turning the page does.
(One of my mutts was so traumatized by his encounter with a Roomba that a small fortune in extra behavioral therapy was required. That ‘work saver’ was quickly consigned to the dust bin.)
Sure there are some tasks I dislike - but that’s why no-iron sheets were invented.
I’ll continue to embrace the tech that actually makes my life easier. I’m glad I have options today to do something differently than previous generations did - and will welcome new automation that actually helps me. But automation for it’s own sake isn’t necessarily a time saver - or an improvement in quality of life.
I remain an analog dinosaur living in a ‘dumb’ house. Now I’m off to my garden to pick sugar snap peas for lunch and then sieve Johannesbeeren for jam - after which I will happily put my feet up and slowly savor a cuppa and a good book.
Well, I guess that @Tom1234 , you have your answer – People on the forum have clearly a lot of free time! 
…and then they choose to live in the XIX century,
My choice: I don’t have a microwave because I cook better , and I don’t have a robo-vacuum cleaner…just because with so much sh*t in my flat, is of not use. Yet, on my free time, (from NOT cleaning, or cooking fried eggs for dinner) I paint oils and acrylics, and learn new stuff - right now, XX century European architecture. Mesmerizing.
But I know a good bunch of people who, seriously, get depressed when they get time on their hands…
I forgot to mention the elevator (a machine that automate stairs ).
Most of times I walk up the stairs, but sometimes it’s nice to use the elevator. So, the stairs are a choice, not a must, that makes them more enjoyable.
