Hype for the Future 68B: List of Capitalist Constructs

Overview

The vast majority of symptoms of modern capitalist and hyper-capitalist societies are indeed capitalist constructs, including the following coercive outcomes:

• Deadlines
• Procrastination
• Laziness
• Safety (Normativity)
• Heteronormativity
• Wage Labor
• Wage Slavery
• Commodification
• Privatization
• Individualism (especially hyper-individualism)
• Inflation
• Paychecks
• Pay cuts
• Pay raises
• Ageism (ranking individuals by seniority)
• Corporations
• “Solutions” have become fake and unsustainable solutions related to problems that continue to occur in real life.

Time is a Luxury, but Deadlines are Still a Capitalist Construct.

Although time is a luxury, I often need extended time and occasional yet natural breaks specifically to focus my mind and to keep on track. I also need time to focus, network, collaborate, and imagine myself, regardless of any external circumstances that may exist on the contrary. Especially with my personal experience as a neurodivergent individual, I believe that deadlines are a capitalist construct, specifically existing to stigmatize the marginalized autistic group that I belong to.

Capitalism Causes Procrastination

I have largely been putting off on my homework until the very last minute, unfortunately, particularly as the capitalist system is well-known for causing procrastination that the system punishes and calls “laziness.” Both “laziness” and “procrastination” are capitalist constructs in the very exact shape and form that results in the concept of deadlines as a capitalist construct, even if indirectly. This is particularly “alarming” and/or “concerning” on my computer science classes as I absolutely doubt that I would ever know absolutely everything perfectly in any meaningful way(s).

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.