“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living, and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, monitoring the ongoing development of our personal brand, **time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on “nothing.**” It provides no return on investment; it is simply too expensive. This is a cruel confluence of time and space: **just as we lose noncommercial spaces, we also see all of our own time and our actions as potentially commercial**. Just as public space gives way to faux public retail spaces or weird corporate privatized parks, so we are sold the idea of compromised leisure, a freemium leisure that is a very far cry from “what we will.”” ([Location 490](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=490)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[resting]], [[not-speaking]], [[dealing-with-social-media]], [[capitalism]], [[personal-branding]] **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]]