Since when is being busy a status symbol? I believe it is a status symbol; it indicates what it did in the ancient world: low status, slavery. Someone who doesn't have enough time for others may think of himself as important, but I think of him as deprived and poor. What man in history ever boasted of wealth because of what he lacked being able to give? Time is no different. A slave is unable to give because he lacks and not free to give because he is not free. Only the slave and the poor are unable to do what they want because of what they lack. The rich are at leisure. Sometimes a salary and a title are enemies of leisure, and so what status do they really confer? So a busy person is a slave; that is his status.
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