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Further, setting up a large bureaucracy makes an autocrat beholden to those who run it. The first rule of office holding is to minimize the number of people whose support you need. To avoid becoming a slave of their own tax collectors, autocrats often use indirect taxation instead.
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
According to this perspective, abundance is not a technological threshold to be crossed. Instead, abundance is a social relationship, based on the principle that the means of one’s existence will never be at stake in any of one’s relationships. The steadfast security that such a principle implies is what allows all people to ask “What am I going to do with the time I am alive?” rather than “How am I going to keep living?”
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
In Vygotsky’s analysis, our “spontaneous concepts” begin in the concreteness of our day-to-day experiences, and it is from there that we begin to generalize and understand individual concepts as part of a larger system of concepts: we move from spontaneous, commonsense understandings of the world toward developing conscious awareness through more systematic, scientific understandings.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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