Time-saving technology coexists with unprecedented felt time scarcity

Evidence

If one follows the analysis suggested by Marx, then in the first place labor time directly constitutes a decisive, i.e., value-creating, factor of production, as time is transformed by work into value. … As Marx already noted, the capitalist economics of time therefore provides one explanation for the paradoxical link between the introduction of time-saving technologies and the consequent increasing scarcity of time resources, i.e., the heightening of the pace of life: “hence too the economic paradox that the most powerful instrument for reducing labor-time suffers a dialectical inversion and becomes the most unfailing means for turning the whole lifetime of the worker and his family into labor time at capital’s disposal for its own valorization.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 451 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Modern fragmented experience makes life race at both ends. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 405; Modern advocates long expected technology to deliver abundant free time; Time scarcity arises only when growth outpaces acceleration — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 237 (+14 more)

Related

• Technical acceleration contradicts rather than explains modern time scarcity and stress (similarity 0.89)
• Time-saving technologies become the means of extracting more labor time (similarity 0.88)
• Time scarcity despite technical acceleration forms a distinct third acceleration category (similarity 0.88)
• Technology saves time yet people feel more time-starved than ever (similarity 0.87)
• Time scarcity arises only when growth outpaces acceleration (similarity 0.86)
• Time scarcity is cultural and psychological, not just measurable (similarity 0.84)
• A scarcity-free time society was a widely dreamed-of technological promise (similarity 0.84)
• Time acceleration redistributes and conceals power across classes (similarity 0.83)
• Faster transport and communication do not inherently cause more frequent use or time scarcity (similarity 0.82)
• Modern advocates long expected technology to deliver abundant free time (similarity 0.82)
• Time-saving technologies may form a zero-sum or negative-sum time game (similarity 0.81)
• Escalating abundance outpaces acceleration, generating time scarcity. (similarity 0.81)
• Acceleration cannot increase one’s share of realized possibilities (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism treats time as a scarce factor convertible into surplus profit (similarity 0.79)
• Technical acceleration delivers abundant free time and banishes boredom (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Time-saving technologies become the means of extracting more labor time #expands (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 451
• Production-process forms increasingly colonize private leisure time #expands (0.80)
• Time acceleration redistributes and conceals power across classes #expands (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 97