01176nas a2200109   4500008004100000245007100041210006600112260001200178520078900190100001800979856006900997       2014                        eng d00aThe Iron Cage of the Elites: Time Consuming Efforts to Stay on Top0 aIron Cage of the Elites Time Consuming Efforts to Stay on Top  aLeipzig3 aFrom a traditional leftist perspective centered on class-struggle, things are easy: The capitalist economy produces winners and losers. The rich, the winners, gain wealth, time and freedom, while the losers have to sell their time and their autonomy and remain poor at that. With respect to time, the difference is portrayed as the difference between those who can command over their time and those who have to do as they are told (when working). Alas, in my paper, I want to argue that this perspective is 1) not just too simple (for the elites live in an iron cage), it is 2) plain wrong (for time-sovereignty does not necessarily reduce time-pressure) – and it 3) even plays a significant role in reproducing the motivational energies to keep the growth-game in place and motion.1 aRosa, Hartmut  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3304