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Why does leisure have to mean consumption? And isn't consumption necessarily limited to the amount produced?

I wasn't particularly impressed by TFA, but I don't understand this criticism of it.

Well, you still need to consume, eat, house yourself etc. Any situation where you're not paying for that without a productive output is one where you're increasing the ratio of consumption to production. Of course not all work is productive, but solving inefficiencies is _work_ not leisure

Most work isn't aimed at making technological progress towards a more ecological or otherwise better future.

Most work is also not aimed at food production or housing anymore because of technology.

A large proportion of work is aimed at housing, but for entirely the wrong reasons. Housing costs in first world countries these days generally expand to consume available income, via land price inflation. Actual build cost - "production" - is a minor piece of the pie.

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