One of the truisms of modern life is that nobody has any time. Everybody is busy, ___, ___, ___. So let’s try a simple thought experiment. Imagine that you came into possession of a magical new set of technologies that could automate or expedite every single part of your job. What would you do with the extra time? Maybe you’d ___, or have more children, or learn to ___ in the additional leisure. But what if I told you that you wouldn’t do any of those things: You would just work the exact same amount of time as before. For most of history, humans blithely languished in their own ___. Most families’ clothes were washed on a ___, and body odor was ___. The fleet of housework technologies that ___ the world between the late-19th and mid-20th century created new norms of cleanliness — for our floors, our clothes, ourselves. New norms meant more work. Automatic washers and dryers raised our expectations for clean clothes and encouraged people to go out and buy new shirts and pants; housewives therefore had more ___ laundry to wash, dry, and fold.