The Moralization of Productivity

People don't benefit financially from their productivity. But we also have this really strong social discourse of you must be productive, right? And we think that if you're not productive in american society, you must have something fundamentally wrong with you. So diagnoses such as 80 d eight h d and anxiety are often considered in terms of problems with productivity. Will end along that pathologization. We should consider the moralization of productivity,. where we end up performing it, right? We end up being hyper productive. On top of that, we end up show casing how productive we are. Because again, we wear that badge of exhaustion and burn out and tireness almost as if it shows our

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