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The bankers who set out to cash in by ripping off homebuyers were simply obeying the imperatives of financial capitalism--those who didn't were replaced by less scrupulous competitors. The same goes for the homebuyers who took out loans beyond their means and the insurers whose guarantees only made…

When the "machines" were first introduced, the supervisor told us that whoever had the best efficiency rating each week would get a paid day off. It's hard to convey how profoundly this threatened our culture of solidarity. In the vines, everyone moved at more or less the same pace. The faster work…

What is capital, really? Once you strip away the superstitions that make it seem like a force of nature, it's essentially a social construct that enables some people to amass power. Without the notion of private property, which is only "real" insofar as everyone abides by it, material resources cou…

[...] being "ethical" is an additional selling point to increase their price. In the free market, selling price is not determined by the material costs of producing the item, but by the highest price consumers will pay. Value is not an inherent characteristic--even petroleum is only valuable inside…

"The only thing 'free' about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only t…