Part 4:
On time-space

The average Dutch person spends:

  • 21 hours per week on housework
  • 79 hours per week on sleep
  • 11 hours per week eating and drinking
  • 7 hours per week on hygiene and getting dressed
  • 38 hours per week on paid labour 


    Amsterdam, like most world capitals, is undergoing an intense housing crisis. Slowly, yet surely, the movement of the train has come to literally finance domestic life as people move deeper into suburbia and commute longer to their workplace. 

    T he further you have to travel to the place that funds the roof over your head, the less time you have for the invisible labor that must happen before you show up every morning for your paid one. The less you look after your home, your children, your pets, your dishes, your laundry, your teeth, your sleep, your mental health, the less productive and useful you are for your employer. And the cycle continues when the less productive you are, the more time you need to spend working…


    Eating healthy, home cooked meals is a privilege. Sleeping 8 hours a night is a privilege. Raising kids deviceless is a privilege. Money costs time, time costs money and everything inbetween costs both money and time.