All time is now entrepreneurial because workers themselves have become the commodity.

Evidence

The good old days of exploitation, where the boss was interested in the worker only to the extent that they produced a commodity which could be sold at a profit, are long gone. Work then meant the annihilation of subjectivity, your reduction to an impersonal machine-part; it was the price that you paid for time away from work. Now, there is no time away from work, and work is not opposed to subjectivity. All time is entrepreneurial time because we are the commodities, so that any time not spent selling ourselves is wasted time. Hence, like the characters in the film Limitless, we’re always seeking ways to increase the time available to us — via intoxicants, cutting back on sleep, working while we commute… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1704

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch 105’s claim that contemporary struggles are wars over time, and ch 8 on why sleep is the enemy. — connects to: Migrant laborers have become a foremost commodity in the global economy — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 27; Scripted labor produces a distinct theory of selfhood for workers. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 3268; Big Tech turned workers into cloud proles and everyone else into cloud serfs. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Big Tech turned workers into cloud proles and everyone else into cloud serfs. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Migrant laborers have become a foremost commodity in the global economy #exemplifies (0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 27
• Scripted labor produces a distinct theory of selfhood for workers. #expands (0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3268