Advocating doing nothing presupposes economic margins most workers lack

Evidence

Any argument about mindfulness or attention must address this reality. It’s hard for me to imagine, for example, suggesting “doing nothing” to anyone who Barbara Ehrenreich meets while working at low-wage jobs for her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. Ehrenreich and her coworkers are too busy with the impossible puzzle of making ends (money, time, and the limits of the human body) meet. Even if one solved this puzzle, the question would remain for Ehrenreich: “If you hump away at menial jobs 360-plus days a year, does some kind of repetitive injury of the spirit set in?” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 313

Categorization

• XREF: This is the book’s own self-limitation of its thesis — Odell concedes its privilege problem, relevant to the reader’s stated question of whether her solutions require a park and free time.
• QUESTION: Odell concedes she cannot offer ‘doing nothing’ to Ehrenreich’s workers — does her later affirmative program actually resolve this, or only bracket it?