Chapter 3 engages the character of contemporary control by articulating the concept of "constant capitalism," the emergent mode of production in the early 21st century. In short, the increasing prevalence of immediacy, simultaneity and ubiquity force Marx's dichotomy of constant capital and variable capital into a zone of indistinction, such that distinctions between worktime and freetime hold together no more well than that which once separated technology from humanity rhetorically. The chapter focuses on the process through which constant capitalism, tempo- and technocultural immediacy and neoliberal economics has given rise to a new form of financial dictatorship embodied most clearly in Michigan's Emergency Financial Manager laws.