Free Time in Digital Capitalism:The Dilemma and Its Transcendence
"Free time"is not only a prerequisite for individuals to achieve free and comprehensive development,but also the object that capital tends to appropriate.Viewing"free time"as a lens to understand the contradiction between capital and human development reveals the existential dilemma of humans in capitalist relations.As technological advancement enhances production efficiency and living standards,there is a heightened expectation for individuals to autonomously manage their free time.However,digital capital expropriates this free time in more covert ways,leading to the double shortage of free time in terms of quantity and quality.By monopolizing technology and data resources,digital capitalism converts people's free time into controllable digital labor time,and the domination of technology also makes people unwittingly cede their free time for free.Under the combined influence of capital,market,and other factors,free time has lost its rich significance and deviated from people's needs for free and comprehensive development.Reflecting on the predicament of free time under digital capitalism helps us to understand the relationship between capital,technology and human development,and explores ways to navigate out of the free time dilemma in the digital society.
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