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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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no other way to bring about a post-work world

[...] The proposals in this chapter will not break us out of capitalism, but they do promise to break us out of neoliberalism, and to establish a new equilibrium of political, economic and social forces. From the social democratic consensus to the neoliberal consensus, our argument is that the left…

—p.108 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Post-Work Imaginaries (107) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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on jobless recoveries

In addition to precarity, surplus populations and technological automation help to make sense of a recent labour market phenomenon: the emergence of ‘jobless recoveries’, in which economic growth returns after a crisis but job growth remains anaemic. [...] While their cause is ultimately still a my…

—p.95 The Future Isn’t Working (85) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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to maximise synthetic freedom

[...] A primary aim of a postcapitalist world would therefore be to maximise synthetic freedom, or in other words, to enable the flourishing of all of humanity and the expansion of our collective horizons. Achieving this involves at least three different elements: the provision of the basic necessi…

—p.79 Left Modernity (69) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek