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In 2019, RG officially stopped using the word “earned” to describe wealth obtained through paid work, because of the close association between “earned” and “deserved.” RG also disrupts the link between wealth and worth (and the tendency to euphemize wealth) by using the phrase “high net wealth” instead of “high net worth.”
Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth
Rachel Sherman
The low demand for labor in the wider economy finds its true source in the slackening pace of overall economic growth, associated with the running down of the manufacturing growth engine and the failure to find an alternative to it.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
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.
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