Any functional spin laundry machine is saving more time than anything else in the house.

I remember helping my grandmother with the wring washer: the tub would swish only but not spin, so you had to pull out each item and run it through the wringer assembly above the tub, like a giant set of pasta rollers just waiting to eat your hand. Barely faster than beating them on rocks.

I still hang laundry on the line to dry when weather and clean air allow.

That's literally how employment works. You produce $50 worth of value to your company, and they pay you $20 for your efforts.