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Well, actually, none of that is true and it's the division of time and systemization of behaviors around those divisions which certain social functions are, gen
by brnaftr361 5y ago
Well, actually, none of that is true and it's the division of time and systemization of behaviors around those divisions which certain social functions are, generally, arbitrarily centered around that will ultimately determine outcomes. Which is why there are proposals to do things like starting high schoolers later or moving to a 4 day workweek, which was proposed on the order of a century ago alongside drastic declines in labor hours necessary to produce ends meet. Instead we've got digitized time locks that track to the second and the maintenance of the status quo of a bygone era, and children shored up in living graves to make their dues in time far removed from agency.
Time is perhaps one of the most egregious facilitators of harm in the human domain. Both in manifest physical harm and as the root of a gamut of genuinely harmful behaviors without a real justifying rationale to back it. Haste makes waste. Rush drug trials and find out that thalidomide causes birth defects, that PFAs can't be ejected from the body, that tetraethyl lead is actually harmful... Rush to work and get in a car accident, rush the work and destroy the product... Rush the revolution and forget the human costs...Rush through life to get to the end... All so the trains can run on time.
Anyways, the point is that we can do better — we can be more humane. You could set the clock to whatever hour you please and in a decent society you'd be given free agency over your time or due compensation for the sacrifice of it.