Capital acceleration

‘Capital acecleration’ is a term referring to the acceleration of capitalist production — the acceleration of capital growth. Capital growth is the appreciation of the value of an asset over a period of time.
Productivity acceleration and expansion often leads to capital acceleration. The introduction of machine technology during the industrial revolution was a signifier of capital acceleration and accelerated production.
Industrial machinery and incessant technological innovations function as a materialisation, an embodiment of the imperative of competition. [Krašovec17] The spirit of competition materialises, even becomes machine, for the differences in productive capacity realisable by material innovation. [G18] 
== Explanation ==
Productivity can be increased without the use of technology, for instance by using various techniques of organising the process of labour, psychological motivation (or intimidation) of employees, surveillance and control of their movement, division of labour etc. These means are by no means unimportant, but they are limited, for it is impossible (at least for now) to “hack” the very physiological traits of workers (“I can’t work any faster, I only have two hands!”), meaning that there are biological limits to workers’ speed and endurance. On the other hand, technology offers, in principle, infinite possibilities of increasing production: every single machine can be improved, remade or replaced with a new generation of more powerful machines. Technological development is not limited by slow and unpredictable biological evolution. Capital does harness, among other, human bodies and intelligence, but this is the material it ran into, and this material mutates according to the laws of biological evolution, which is, from the perspective of the imperative for ever increasing productivity, decidedly too slow and unreliable. On the other hand, it also harnesses machines whose evolution is fast and determined by capitalism and which permit a quick, infinite and unlimited increase in productivity, which is why using machine technology—under the pressure of competition—is the most common and the most important means of increasing productivity. [17]
== Branching ==
See: Capital; Acceleration.
Category:Accelerationism
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