Modern time pressure originates in Protestant spiritual asceticism, not capitalist structure.

Evidence

For Weber too a defining characteristic of this ethos consists in the treatment of time as a scarce good of the highest rank. This is clear right at the beginning of his essay on the spirit of capitalism in the famous quotation from Benjamin Franklin that starts with the admonition “remember that time is money.” The categorical imperative of the Protestant ethic and the capitalist ethos consists in the obligation to use time as efficiently as possible, to systematically eliminate waste of time or idleness and to give an exact accounting of how time has been spent. According to Weber, then, the restlessness and agitation, the acceleration of the pace of life through the systematic elimination of pauses and absences and the categorical economization of time in the conduct of life that shape the cardinal experience of modernity are the consequence of an originally (Calvinist, Puritan) Protestant spiritual mindset that is later secularized. In this view a second lost once is a second lost forever and the loss of time is the first and “deadliest of all sins.” Through it the, as it were, temporaly ascetic systematization and disciplining of the conduct of life becomes a core element of the modern attitude to life. From this perspective, time discipline appears to be much more a cultural presupposition of capitalism, rather than a structural consequence. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 196

Categorization

• DEFINE: Weber’s causal account: Protestant ascetic time-discipline is the cultural presupposition of capitalism, a claim the author immediately flags he will revisit.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism emerged ideologically through intensified spiritualization rather than secularization; Protestant sects shattered kin-based bonds enabling modern economy; Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 615 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism emerged ideologically through intensified spiritualization rather than secularization #corroborates (0.80)
• Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 615
• Protestant sects shattered kin-based bonds enabling modern economy #corroborates (0.75)