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How to do nothing (medium.com)
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[-] soyagi@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.

This paragraph stood out to me. It's so hard for most people to "do nothing" even if they really wanted to, and would potentially be the people that would benefit from it the most.

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