Lack of leisure: Is busyness the new status symbol?

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 13:42 in Health & Medicine

Long gone are the days when a life of material excess and endless leisure time signified prestige. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, Americans increasingly perceive busy and overworked people as having high status.

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