In these times of severe economic depression, a primary issue is having a regular work that provides enough income to meet the needs of the family. This is not always easy, particularly when thousands of employees are being laid off. If you are unexpectedly unemployed, the task is to take decisive action to locate another work. To work hard to support our family. However, it also urges us to "eat, drink, and look good" as a reward for all of our efforts. If you already have a family, you must maintain a work-life balance. Rest certain that combining your job, relaxation, and family needs will result in significant rewards.
When you say economic depression, it's not only limited to recession which includes lay offing of jobs but there is also inflation in which prices of the goods are rising. Both are main issues of the people. It's important to be versatile so that we can get a job immediately if in case we got laid off. To earn to eat something is already enough for the poor and they don't really care about their looks anymore.
I won't say it's bad but maybe you are right, that we need to squeeze it in, even just a little, so that we can still look presentable and might help us improve our life. Once you are able to do all those stuffs you mentioned there, you don't need to look for anything or a reward anymore because they are already the reward actually.