Disadvantaged actors shift collective action into politics when possible.

Evidence

The chief obstruction to all of these steps is what, in a trenchant and clear-eyed analysis, Ewa Jasiewicz calls “time poverty”: … Our time is under attack. Work will be intensified, worse paid, and more casualised — if we don’t have it, we’ll be working to have it; mandatory and supervised job searches and workfare will see people forced to spend their time locked into coerced, computerised distraction. A real, diverse, working class self-representative movement needs to include people facing and living these experiences, but how will that happen when we’re too tied up working? … Access to time and our own labour is key and will determine participation and the ability to organise. If we can’t have our own time to organise, we can’t organise, we can’t meet each other, we cannot find each other. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1889 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Those who are resource-advantaged (e.g., with more material resources, superior technology, or greater physical strength) cooperate with those who are similarly endowed to establish and maintain stable institutions that expropriate social, material, and political resources from the vulnerable resource-disadvantaged who fall within their grasp. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political actors’ influence varies with opportunity, position, and skill; Inequality trends result from shifting collective action capacity, not fixed laws. — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 24; Attention politics begins when activists reframe private distress as collective injury — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 448 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Time poverty structurally prevents the poor from organizing political movements #complicates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1889
• Resource-advantaged groups coordinate to create institutions expropriating from the disadvantaged #complicates (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667