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)
Why must "science" "prove" that faking work isn't helpful? Isn't it obvious? Does this mean scientism is the only set of values allowed to dispell the FUD-driven silence spiral?
I don't think it means that—though because many businesses and organizations orient toward numbers, it doesn't hurt to have evidence (and terms to use when pointing at that evidence) that might help nudge things in a more beneficial direction :)
Why must "science" "prove" that faking work isn't helpful? Isn't it obvious? Does this mean scientism is the only set of values allowed to dispell the FUD-driven silence spiral?
I don't think it means that—though because many businesses and organizations orient toward numbers, it doesn't hurt to have evidence (and terms to use when pointing at that evidence) that might help nudge things in a more beneficial direction :)