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Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began “comparing power with power, measuring, calculating” and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.
Labor productivity took off, as farms came to resemble open-air factories. Given the limits to the growth of the demand for agricultural outputs, the sector then shed workers at an incredible pace. __As late as 1950, agriculture employed 24 percent of the workforce in West Germany, 25 percent in France, 42 percent in Japan, and 47 percent in Italy; by 2010, all of these shares were under 5 percent.__
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
What has become apparent through the twentieth century is that even drastic changes in one sub-system (e.g. political revolution) typically do not lead to lasting or widespread change if pressures from other sub-systems (e.g. the global economic order) push back toward equilibrium. __To recast the intersectionality thesis into structural-functionalist terminology, we might say: the problem is that modifying one sub-system (economic, legal, political; race, gender, class) is merely ... change within the system, but does not constitute change of the system, and often languishes in the face of boundary-maintaining pressures.__
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
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