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profits without production archive/dissertation

It was only inevitable that the so-called ‘sharing economy’ would develop out of these socio-economic conditions. Technology, desperation and the continuing individualisation of culture has seen this industry dramatically expand in the USA, UK and elsewhere. Governments now officially speak about i…

—p.202 Microeconomics (really is) for Dummies (172) by Peter Fleming
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human capital theory as a hoax

Friedman had found the ideological lure he was looking for because an individual’s human capital (including earnings and liabilities) can be owned by nobody else. More importantly, human capital theory provides the ultimate neoclassical retort to the Marxist slogan that workers should seize the mea…

—p.182 Microeconomics (really is) for Dummies (172) by Peter Fleming
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work begins with overwork

[...] Capitalist work systems are not defined by a numerical threshold, a kind of red line that only when crossed can we reasonably speak about exploitation. No, this is a qualitative relationship. For that reason, the capitalist mode of production by its very nature has always entailed overwork,…

—p.168 The Theatre of Loss … Work (130) by Peter Fleming