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radical Keynesians like British economists Joan Robinson and William Beveridge knew that to get to the post-scarcity world of Keynes’s dreams, __it would be necessary to socialize investment levels and legislate shorter working days.__
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Imagine a horse and its master. ‘The owner of a horse is responsible for it. If the horse lives he must feed it. If the horse dies he must bury it’. What about another relationship, that between a shareholder and the company of which he owns shares? ‘No such responsibility attaches to a share of stock’. The shareholder is not responsible for the company. Often, he has not even set foot on its premises. He has become, in the words of Thorstein Veblen, an ‘absentee owner’. He no longer has the physical possession of a property, only that of a ‘title deed’ – a dematerialized, abstract property, a paper property.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Where indigenous communities are supposedly superstitious and primitive, modern societies are supposedly driven by science and reason. Where community-based economies are purportedly based on love and friendship, capitalism is taken to be 'objective' and quantitative. These __binary oppositions have little to do with reality, and their function is mainly to legitimise and maintain hierarchies between groups with different attributes or resources.__
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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