How Capitalism Commodifies Time
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The Acceleration of Time
Under capitalism, there is always a sense in which if you're simply inhabiting time or spend time without producing wealth, you're wasting time. We tend to evaluate our experience of time in terms wifh, the amount of wealth that we've accrued during the passage of whatever time we're talking about. And this voracious appetite of capitalism means that we always try to squeeze as much value out ofwhatever time we have available to us. It's an interesting paradox that even though capitalism succeeds at producing technology that reduces the amount time that we actually have to work, it also increases the feeling the need to work.
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