Deep rest cannot substitute for economic security

Evidence

At least in my experience, students aren’t workaholics for the sake of it; the workaholism is driven by a very real fear of very real consequences that exist both within and outside of school. Blowing off steam by commenting “legit me” on a meme about sleep deprivation, or even allowing oneself a day off to catch up on sleep (!), can’t help with the overarching issue of economic precarity that awaits the student—and indeed has already reached less privileged students who must work in addition to studying. It does nothing about the specter of student debt, nor about the fear of ending up outside a shrinking pool of security. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 323

Categorization

• SEED: This is the seed of the privilege objection the reader wants to test against Odell: her refusal of productivity presumes economic cushioning, and she herself names the limit here.
• DEFINE: Establishes what doing nothing cannot do — a clarifying boundary that matters for reading the title correctly.
• XREF: connects to: Abstract liberal theory cannot substitute for confronting economic realities — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 342; Cooperative ideology alone could not buffer welfare cuts without asset security — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 80; Rational interest-calculation cannot substitute for trust in politics — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 87
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Abstract liberal theory cannot substitute for confronting economic realities — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 342; Cooperative ideology alone could not buffer welfare cuts without asset security — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 80; Rational interest-calculation cannot substitute for trust in politics — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 87