According to Veblen, “saying, ‘I have time to dream … meet friends, put up my feet – I have time to do nothing?’” has been and is the way to gain social prestige.
> "But the whole of the life of the gentleman of leisure is not spent before the eyes of the spectators who are to be impressed with that spectacle of honorific leisure which in the ideal scheme makes up his life. For some part of the time his life is perforce withdrawn from the public eye, and of this portion which is spent in private the gentleman of leisure should, for the sake of his good name, be able to give a convincing account. He should find some means of putting in evidence the leisure that is not spent in the sight of the spectators."
is no longer a problem in the age of the cell phone.