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I'll bite: > The action item that falls out is the same in both cases: drive capture to keep the “right people” running things. This rings true, and seems an insightful point. But I lost the plot in the following: > The result is the same in both cases: if you do a halfway honest plot of productivity and genuine standard of living against the decades, you get divergent lines that seem to be training for an Olympic gy…
Yeah, that’s a fair point I suppose. It’s kind of a limitation of it bot being the aforementioned book someone needs to write. Establishing the financial economics of productivity and its relationship to the Western Liberal Enlightenment conceptualization of the public good along a non-differentiable surface of capture from WWII to the present is a masters thesis alone. The level of ambient violence in a surveillance…
Re: The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
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