The flip-side to the convenience that compressed labor in the commodity and capital provides is the splitting of the attention and the confusion that the logic of specialization and the nature of capital in general introduces.
It is the whip of hunger and one's fitment into the social order that drives one's life disciplines. As the direction of society proceeds away from each individual, that drive has been split from one's ectasies, except for a lucky few who have come into control of higher society, or who have otherwise landed a fulfilling job that combines one's joys in a holistic package with general sustenance.
Everyone else then is stuck bobbing around on a tether, struggling in vain for ecstasy but constantly dragged back to one's position as dictated by supply, demand, and competition in the market. That is, if one hasn't already dropped out of the avenues of absorption and landed on the streets, in prison, in a daily fight for subsistence, or in the grave, as so may victims outside of the imperium are fated to end up.
As the market is structured, that is, as the market is populated with a small amount of huge and complex firms, a greater but declining number of medium-sized firms, and a greater but declining number of small businesses, and so on, the vast majority of positions available consist of highly specialized and limited tasks.
And so most employees spend their days with minds numbed, and exhausted, return to some isolated habitation with fast food or a frozen dinner. There isn't the time to develop those faculties that drives one into creative, intellectual, culinary, physical, or spiritual ecstasy, and there isn't the time to generate one's own environment, political culture, or immediate community - all of which take time and energy to build their respective disciplines - and so one drifts passively to those created for them commercially, a sphere that is constantly expanding as commercial activity expands, both of its own internal pressures and to attend to growing markets caused by the shrinking sphere of autonomous individual activity, attributable to shrinking wages and resources.
So this generates confused, scattered, anxious, and fearful people who are tethered to their life raft careers, who are willing to entertain votes for authoritarian demagogues. Conveniently enough, binarist, conventional white people are all too happy to ignore the universality of this condition, if only they could hoist themselves up on top of compressed and marginalized communities, and perhaps throw some of their own peers down into the killing floor to keep together what tatters of this so-called "party" are left. It is a grim business.
