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I’m struck by the idea that the cult of productivity is not necessarily a personal struggle, it’s a societal one. 

We’ve created a social infrastructure and culture that values efficiency and output above all else, and it’s killing us.

This is an excerpt from a novel published in 1935. Productivity cult is so ingrained in the US cultural history (and it’s been highly exported to the rest of the world).

Perhaps it’s a perversion of American pragmatism

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

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