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# Fighting the pressure for pandemic personal growth
- URL: https://werd.io/fighting-the-pressure-for-pandemic-personal-growth/
- Published: 2021-06-29T18:48:40.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-29T18:48:40.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"But there’s a larger norm at work behind questions like this, and behind the greater expectation that people could use lockdown to boost their coronapreneurial profiles. An obsessive focus on productivity is “part of late-stage American capitalism,” Blustein said. “This productivity ethos has gotten transported into our hobbies, it’s gotten transported into our relationships, into our physical and mental health.”"

\[[Link](https://www.vox.com/22536756/covid-pandemic-quarantine-lockdown-productivity-hobbies-work)\]