The right to do nothing is a labor right, not a luxury

Evidence

But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and just because this right is denied to many people doesn’t make it any less of a right or any less important. As far back as 1886, decades before it would finally be guaranteed, workers in the United States pushed for an eight-hour workday: “eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of what we will.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s privilege critique with historical labor-movement grounding — the ‘eight hours of what we will’ slogan reframes doing nothing as collective political demand rather than individual luxury. This is a central part of defending Odell against the withdrawal misreading.
• QUESTION: Does Odell’s turn to labor history here fully resolve the privilege objection, or does her own account of the Rose Garden/park still presuppose free time and a place to go? Worth testing.