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Reclaiming Time with Oliver Burkeman

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The Connection Between Capitalism and the Fear of Death

"There is this fundamental desire to not fully consciously participate in what it feels like to be constrained by reality," he says. "To only have a certain amount of time to know that it's coming to an end, to not know when it's going to come to an end ... All of these things are a sort of a situation in which we don't want to be." In the post industrial era, certainly, and the industrial from the industrial era onwards, I should say, this idea that like, your time itself is a commodity is a big part of this, because then it becomes absolutely part of the same logic to try to squeeze as much value out of every minute, every hour

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