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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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an abundance of labour is the point

[...] An abundance of labour is arguably the point, to the extent that there is one, of technological progress. It is the beginning of the end of the need to work hard to stay alive. A system in which people actively seek out labour they would strongly prefer not to do [...] is not one society ough…

—p.8 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century Introduction (1) by Ryan Avent
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there is nothing sacred about technology

ADORNO: The more superfluous a job of work is, the worse it becomes, the more it degenerates into ideology.

HORKHEIMER: And the more it is misapplied. Work today is not superfluous as long as people still go hungry. Work is perverted. Automation. We should take greater care to help others, to ex…

—p.53 Towards a New Manifesto The False Abolition of Work (51) by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
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freedom is not the freedom to accumulate

Freedom is not the freedom to accumulate, but the fact that I have no need to accumulate.

—p.23 Work, Spare Time and Freedom--I (19) by Max Horkheimer
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the source of all poetry

a shaft of light from the telos falls onto labour. Basically, people are too short-sighted. They misinterpret the light that falls on labour from ultimate goals. Instead, they take labour qua labour as the telos and hence see their personal work success as that purpose. That is the secret. If they …

—p.15 The Role of Theory (1) by Max Horkheimer
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when you reject utopia

Reason, which is essential to keep the machinery in motion, necessarily contains its other. When you start to think, you cannot stop short at purely reproductive thinking. This does not mean that things will really work out like that, but you cannot think without thinking that otherness. The genera…

—p.4 The Role of Theory (1) by Theodor W. Adorno