I'm not going to argue about the tinest little details of my life. I still went to the gym when I was working 70-80 hour weeks. My husband goes to the gym every day in his lunch break at work, and he works full time, 43 hours a week, in an office with an hour commute each way.

However, if you're determined to argue that I (along with everyone else I see every day in the gym) am in an uniquely privileged position, then fine. It's ultimately no skin off my nose, and is an irrelevant tangent to the point I was making, which was:

Most people have spare time that they choose to use in other ways. For example, watching entire series of programmes on Netflix or playing video games or going to the theatre.

Many other people, despite work, kids, and other commitments, still make the time to exercise.

As I said in the first place, it's about what you prioritise - and the majority of people who are NOT in dire straits financially, or really struggling to make ends meet, could make time to exercise if they wanted to .If they don't want to, that's fine.

In any case, the thread as a whole was about obesity, and exercise has very little impact on that.

(Also, tangentially- hilarious the idea that I can 'choose' whether or not to have a heavier workload! That's not how it works for most freelancers.)