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why workers don't revolt

[...] The idea implicit in Working, as a kind of subtext, is something like this: the workers know they are being screwed, but they do not revolt, because what they do instead is to use all their brains and all their sensitivity to give their work meaning, to drench it with beauty and excitemen…

—p.77 Adventures in Marxism Studs Terkel: Living in the Mural (65) by Marshall Berman
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desperation makes carnal pleasures less joyful

There is another striking way in which young Marx worries about sex and conceives it as a symbol of something bigger. When workers are alienated from their own activity in their work, their sexual lives become an obsessive form of compensation. They then try to realize themselves through desperate …

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Marshall Berman
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making sure that everyone benefits from globalization

[...] If the tax system is not made more progressive, it should come as no surprise that those who derive the least benefit from free trade may well turn against it. The progressive tax is indispensable for making sure that everyone benefits from globalization, and the increasingly glaring absence …

—p.497 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax (493) by Thomas Piketty
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the purpose is to justify existing inequalities

If we are to make progress on these issues in the future, it would be good to begin by working toward greater transparency than exists today. In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on close examination of the…

—p.487 A Social State for the Twenty-First Century (471) by Thomas Piketty
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no one deserves to be poor

But we should also realize that those societies do not belong to us. If we are lucky enough to find ourselves within them, we can argue credibly that we are contributing to them and therefore deserve a share of the benefits that flow from them. But the fact that we are lucky enough to be within the…

—p.238 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century Human Wealth (230) by Ryan Avent