- kyleserikawa:
- One of the things that sometimes seems to get lost when people talk about the power of the market to create efficiency is that a free market requires that information be shared and freely available and understandable by everyone. When information is withheld by one side or the other of a transaction, or when different customers for a service or product are unable to compare prices, the metaphor of the invisible hand breaks down.
- mawil1013:
- There used to be, ‘Company Towns’. There are now, ‘Company Nations’ where every aspect of human life is governed by the whim of those at the top.
- kollapsnik:
- Competitiveness is what fufflers like best to exploit. Most non-fuffled life forms choose cooperate, out of an innate sense of self-preservation. Among the more evolved humans, competition is a display designed to please the gods, not to defeat your own friends.
- Poor Richard:
- Automation can easily exhaust any resistance we have.
- byte-smasher:
- The constant feeling that I could do much more for this world than I can possibly ever get payed for, if only I didn’t need to waste all my time doing things I can get payed for… There are few things so soul-crushing as the knowledge that this feeling is not mine alone, but is in fact commonplace.
- robocopper1986:
- all those bright well meant ideas drowning in a cestpool of advertising, warmongering, pron and what not.damn you interwebs you were the chosen one to lead us from darkness into light but kinda got high and wondered off…
- From Arse To Elbow:
- In a society where labour is increasingly superfluous, “work” becomes a positional good rather than an economic imperative. You can see the early stages of this in the shift to unpaid internships and the increasing cost of tertiary education.
Quotebag #114
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One response to “Quotebag #114”
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I doubt that work will ever be superfluous but it keeps getting less well paid. The superfluous bit is a myth meant to influence workers to accept decreasing compensation rather than fighting for economic justice.
Did the interwebs really “wonder off” or is that a typo?
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