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The second kind of facsimile of happiness is associated with cognition. Thus Adorno takes as the motto of one of the three parts of his Minima Moralia a statement he attributes to F. H. Bradley: “When everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst.”

Outside Ethics

Geuss, Raymond.

If income tends to be (increasingly) unevenly distributed, wealth is even more so (Credit Suisse, 2021; Bach et al., 2020; Piketty, 2014; Keister, 2014). This is for two main reasons: i) wealth is a stock that accumulates and generates resilient inequalities from an intergenerational point of view; and ii) wealth is a strong activator of the St. Matthew effect (i.e., the rich get richer).

The Super-rich: Origin, Reproduction, and Social Acceptance

Luca Storti, Joselle Dagnes

Marx selects from among a host of technical characteristics the specific feature which forms the juncture between humanity and the machine: its effect upon the labor process. The technical is never considered purely in its internal relations, but in relation to the worker.

Labor and Monopoly Capital

Harry Braverman

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