Eroded economic security dissolves time boundaries toward always-monetizable hours

Evidence

The removal of economic security for working people dissolves those boundaries—eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will—so that we are left with twenty-four potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 85

Categorization

• SHARE: The twenty-four monetizable-hours point directly sharpens the tired ‘work-life balance’ framing; worth sending to someone arguing about productivity culture.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism treats time as a scarce factor convertible into surplus profit — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 194