How Capitalism Commodifies Time
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Covet and Quality Time
I do think there is this urge to go back to the way things were, but i also think that many people have been led to reassess their previously packed schedules and start to enjoy certain features of quarantine. So for instance, in her book, pressed for time, judy wakeman talks about how quality time cannot be accelerated. And so again, i don't want to glamorize it, but i do think that quality time has emerged more during coved. My apartment building has started doing a weekly happy hour. We blocked out, using this sort of capitalist mode of blocking out time, five to seven p m. Every friday is our time to share a happy hour together
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