In a material capitalism, which measures work and productivity in material (quantifiable and therefore numerically measurable) things, for which money can function as an abstraction, the most immediately useful complementary perspective that I've found is that of temporal politics.
Everyone already has the same amount of clock time per day, and that's not going to change. But that's clearly not the subjective experience of time. Most can't even count three minutes without missing the mark.
Focusing on time doesn't just center the obvious: Our commodified time is valued differently by capitalism. It also centers the quality of it for ourselves. It makes the power structures of kyriarchy harder to ignore, while still doing it in s way that's at least somewhat available for quantifying. It was a useful tool back when I was trying to be pragmatic with politics.
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