Doing nothing can be read as a privilege-dependent luxury

Evidence

Of course, 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, stare into trees, and sit on hills all the time because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be on campus 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 cause to think he could get another job. It’s very 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. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 75

Categorization

• QUESTION: Odell here voices the privilege objection herself, but does she answer it fully, or does her response shift ground to the labor-history argument?