Maybe its because of technology there isn't enough work. You can order your food online, use a blow up doll for sex, waste away your idle time by exposing your eyeballs to a neverending stream of pixels changing colour. This is all stuff you couldn't do 100 years ago.
If you lived 100 years ago you would be too busy bringing in the turf, repairing the thatch on the roof, milking your 1 cow that you'd need a wife to cook your dinner and keep the stove lit. Nowadays that wife is happy enough spending her days in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment eating nutella from the jar while watching netflix.