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Democratic leaders were elected, after all, to advance the current interests at least of those who chose them. The long run is always on someone else’s watch. Democracy overseas is a great thing for us if, and only if, the people of a democratizing nation happen to want policies that we like. When a foreign people are aligned against our best interest, our best chance of getting what we want is to keep them under the yoke of an oppressor who is willing to do what we, the people, want.
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
In brief, Marx argues that within a capitalist system, the key to the productive relationship is whether an individual does or does not own the means of production, meaning the skills, tools, premises and other resources necessary for earning a living. The concentration of ownership of the means of production into the hands of the capitalist class means that the majority are forced to work in particular ways because they have no choice.
__The vast majority cannot make a living without exchanging their time, effort and skills for wages.__
Sociology and the Future of Work
Paul Ransome
Working on client projects, she began to run a parallel exercise in her own mind, ignoring the McKinsey toolkit and just asking herself what she thought the right answer was. “Very rarely, if ever, did the step-by-step, perfectly linear process of ‘here’s how we’re going to conduct this exploration’—very rarely did that actually surface the right answer,” she said. Often, that process—the thing for which McKinsey was famed—was “used primarily for communicating the answer, rather than generating it,” she said. The answers were derived through intelligence and common sense, and then the team would make them look more like trademark McKinsey answers: “We would backfill them into the template,” Cohen said.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
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