Competition makes leisure feel threatened because rivals keep improving while one rests

Evidence

But his anxiety about missing something does not have purely hedonistic roots. There are also good business reasons: While he fishes on the beach, the competition is developing newer, better ships, acquiring expanded fishing rights, placing his monopoly on the coast in question, and thus always on the point of ruining his seaside vacation. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 62

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the thesis-driving fear-of-getting-left-behind motif in modern acceleration discourse; echoes the squeeze between disposable-time crisis and competition from earlier in the book.