Time acceleration redistributes and conceals power across classes

Evidence

Thus, not only does time feel accelerated, but its acceleration reorders and masks power relations among those investing and trading, as well as among those merely consuming and desiring. And as the propensity to speculate expands rapidly in society, greater numbers of ordinary people become embroiled in —often unwinnable —fights for time, value, visibility, and imagination. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 97

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s core thesis that speculation has migrated from trading floors into everyday life and self-presentation. — connects to: Time-saving technology coexists with unprecedented felt time scarcity; Postmodern fragmentation results from acceleration forcing nonintegrated parallel processing past a critical threshold — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 593