Deadlines are a Capitalist Construct.

The concept of deadlines, particularly in the form in which society recognizes them today, is inherently capitalist by nature. Every deadline that has been created by numerous expectations has been arbitrarily set to force continuous labor and to thus promote complicity into the system. Every miss of a deadline occurs because of the arbitrary nature of deadlines, and every obedience of a deadline occurs because of pressure and an extremely difficult experience…

Through the promotion of deadlines, society often forces adherence to stereotypical norms and to hyper-individualism, thus discouraging communal living and forcing complicity in the capitalist system. A modern approach to the systems would likely be to create a concept of flexible deadlines, where each and every deadline is not predetermined arbitrarily but perhaps by a certain level of productivity in the system, since not everyone is tuned to the same extreme of a modern pace of life.

As referenced by a previous Daily Prompt question, novaTopFlex believes that deadlines are a key feature of why society cannot rebuild the days of the week. novaTopFlex advocates for replacing the concept of the “weekend” entirely with a concept of social days, where the community can catch up on the news collectively with in-person experiences as well as wide-area experiences. Even at a local scale, a concept such as social days would absolutely be ideal, and likely promote the systems of modern economic needs—a system that has not been successfully invented as of yet.