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    Sure if you ignore that keeping track of time predates capitalism by several millennia, and that the unrelenting march of entropy doesn’t care about what we think regarding the economy.

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      It’s a stretch, and not Capitalism, but arguably the primitive agrarian societies were the first to have an exploited worker class.

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        1 year ago

        Being and remaining alive is almost by definition a battle against time.

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          I said it was a stretch, tracking time certainly was already important for hunter-gatherer societies. I was not disagreeing with you.