@MisuseCase @ashedryden

Cory Doctorow on the higher “time tax” #poor people pay:

“The richer you are, the more your time is your own – not only are many systems arranged with your convenience in mind, but you also command the social power to do something about systems that abuse your time.

For example: if you live in most American cities, public transit is slow, infrequent and overcrowded. Without a car, you lose hours every day to a commute spent standing on a lurching bus. And while a private car can substantially shorten that commute, people who can afford taxis or Ubers get even more time every day.

There’s a thick anthropological literature on the ways that cash-poverty translates into #TimePoverty. […]”

MUCH more at the link, including unsurprising suggestions for making things better: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/10/my-time/

#wealth #poverty #inequality

There's a thick anthropological literature on the ways that cash-poverty translates into #TimePoverty. In #DavidGraeber's must-read essay "The Utopia of Rules," he nails the way that capitalist societies generate Soviet-style bureaucracies, especially for poor people.

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