Emery Marc Petchauer

Emery Marc Petchauer

I figured something out today that’s been bugging me for 2 years: Efficiency for the sake of capitalist production is different than efficiency for the sake of human capacity. The former is to make more stuff. The later is to honor what we are and are not capable of. I’ve been trying to disentangle those two ideas in my head for two years. Since I couldn’t, I’d feel like a capitalist when asking for efficiency. But now I think I’ve realized I was asking for processes that might be within my capacity as a human. Sometimes literally: what I have and don’t have time for.