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If you read history in more detail you'll find that that's not quite true. The industrial revolution only improved the quality of life for people after the rich and powerful made sure to enclose the commons and invade countries all over the world making living conditions for people worse in the process. Hunters and gatherers had more leisure time than the industrial worker, even medieval peasants had more leisure time than the industrial worker, living conditions got worse when people were forced into cities (once again, by stealing communal land that made it possible that villages were pretty much self sufficient).
Better living conditions nowadays are only possible because the environment is being destroyed at a record rate, and are declining again as we speak, with pollution making life in those glorious industrial cities worse every day.
History is written by the winners so you have to read between the lines to figure out how much of this supposed better life for all is actually propaganda.
"more leisure time"
That's not the only metric you should be looking at. In fact it's a pretty terrible metric.
How is leisure time terrible? And it wasn't the only thing I was looking at. Clean air, clean water, sustainable production, green spaces, quality over quantity of products, sustainable production... But then I feel like you don't want to actually engage. Go on and continue "industrial revolution good, low tech past bad" - I can't help you here.