Comment by captainbland

> descriptions of powerful people dwell with eager fascination on how many hours they devote to their labors

A point of interest for me is how they end up counting basically anything as working hours because the barrier between work and life has effectively dissolved. Elon Musk for example seems to spend an inordinate amount of time shitposting for someone who claims to work up to 100 hours a week.

But precisely that such "work" is totally self directed makes it significantly different from other forms of work in that it's totally self-defined and practically any activity could be captured within that definition.

So a lot of this mythos of long hours from the wealthy I think is just empty status building for the most part.