The debate about artificial intelligence remains overwhelmingly focused on three key questions: Which jobs will disappear? Which skills will endure? And are current valuations justified? But these questions, while important, obscure a deeper one: What will replace time as the measure of value and who will control it? For two centuries, time has been capitalism’s organizing principle. In his 1967 essay “Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism,” the British historian E.P.