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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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shifting the locus of decision archive/dissertation archive/mc433

Summarizing his position, we may say that the basic problem of contemporary capitalism is no longer the contradiction between 'profit maximization' and the 'rationalization of production' (from the point of view of the entrepreneur), but that between a potentially unlimited productivity (at the lev…

—p.71 The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures Towards a Theory of Consumption (69) by Jean Baudrillard
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growth is logically separated from affluence archive/so478

[...] As soon as the fiction of GDP is abandoned as the criterion of affluence, we have to admit that growth neither takes us further from, nor brings us closer to, affluence. It is logically separated from it by the whole social structure which is, here, the determining instance. A certain type …

—p.53 The Social Logic of Consumption (49) by Jean Baudrillard
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