While it was once considered “high-status” to have abundant free time, the emergence of modern capitalistic economic models have made the perception of being busy more of a high-class status marker, because within such systems (ostensibly, at least) those who are always on the run, always on calls and in meetings, always grinding away at something work-related, are also those we tend to classify as important and (at times)
Performative Busyness
Performative Busyness
Performative Busyness
While it was once considered “high-status” to have abundant free time, the emergence of modern capitalistic economic models have made the perception of being busy more of a high-class status marker, because within such systems (ostensibly, at least) those who are always on the run, always on calls and in meetings, always grinding away at something work-related, are also those we tend to classify as important and (at times)