Tag: Work
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Elites Explain Why Class Warfare is Good for Productivity
On September 12, 2023, Tim Gurner, the owner of Gurner Group, addressed a crowd at the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit: “I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity… They have…
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Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class
If you’re looking for a non-Marxist critique of Capitalism and modern society in general, then you need to read Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class. Published in 1899, the book is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism, which proposes that the social strata…
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Adam Smith’s Division of Labor – “stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become”
Hi, Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. I just finished a quick analysis of the document for anyone interested. I argue that Marx’s ideas were nothing new. If you wanted to know about the dangers of Capitalism, all you have to do is read from the father of Capitalism himself. Let’s take a…