Endless capitalism
The article discusses capitalism's aspirations to increase human productivity by exploring technologies that reduce the need for sleep and enhance alertness. It reviews a study about the white-crowned bird, which decreases its sleep during migration. It points out that ongoing technological advancement has reshaped an economy that operates around the clock, and that companies' efforts to exploit human biology to boost productivity reflect capitalism's desire to harness unused resources, including the limits of the human body, in order to enable continuous work without pause.
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