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Laissez-faire was planned, planning was not — Polyani Flexworking was planned, 9-5 was not — me When you look at the history, it’s amazing how much the synchronized monotemporality of ~1884-1984 was largely an emergent convergence towards a global equilibrium temporality
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That one's on railway companies. I do see your larger point: the whole culture today is an evolved thing, not a designed one. But it evolved from lots of individual designs, like train timetables and the labor movement. Saying it wasn't designed seems . . . off.
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In relative terms though, the murder of monotemporality was much more planned top down, with flexwork as synecdoche for resulting atemporal state
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