why not both? I know plenty of people with family businesses that operate well. Doesn't have to be binary
Calling work "abstract busyness" devalues workers.
It's abstract busyness if those workers don't have a significant stake in the businesses they're keeping afloat, as they aren't among the owners who are made wealthy from their abstracted labor.
What about actually enjoying your work? I value that higher than whether or not I have any ownership in the company I work for.
Then stop training workers in valueless things like agile PM or Product mgmt
Valueless PM? You must work for a bad company who is not product focused.
If all the Agile people and all the Project managers got stuck in an endless status meeting, no one would ever notice.
My product manager does everything I don't want to do for me, so I sure would notice.