Allen C. Bluedorn calls fungible time, meaning that, like currency, it is consistent and can be endlessly subdivided. Measuring fungible time is like envisioning standardized containers that can potentially be filled with work; in fact, there is a strong incentive to fill these units of time with as much work as possible. As opposed to the duration of life or even the processes of the human body, one hour is meant to be indistinguishable from another—decontextualized, depersonalized, and infinitely divisible. In its most dehumanizing form, this view sees individual people as interchangeable,
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