Combating time poverty requires time itself, which humans lack
Evidence
The problem is that, in order to struggle against time poverty, the main resource we require is time — a nasty vicious circle that capital, with its malevolent genius, now has… This problem is absolutely immanent — writing this and the other posts I have completed this week has meant that I have fallen enormously behind on my work, which is storing up stress for the next week or so. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1893
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Time poverty structurally prevents the poor from organizing political movements — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1889; Time scarcity is cultural and psychological, not just measurable — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 268; Time scarcity alienates people from their preferred selves regardless of free time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 838 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Time scarcity is cultural and psychological, not just measurable
#expands(0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 268 - Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities
#complicates(0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1064 - Time scarcity alienates people from their preferred selves regardless of free time
#complicates(0.74) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 838 - Waiting-line rationing advantages people whose time is cheap and obligations few.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 695