Appliances like the washing machine literally killed the market for "hired help" in the anglosphere. In-house servants used to be relatively common among the middle and upper classes; with the aid of electrical appliances, the time/money costs of doing the laundry, dishes, and so forth went down so far that only the very rich care to hire servants as a mark of status.

Yes, but that didn't translate to 'lots of free time'. We went on to do other stuff, like fast food, advertisement, entertainment, financial work, etc.