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The missing piece here has been a systematic effort to understand how cultural systems, as combinations of norms, dispositions, practices, and histories, frame the good life as a landscape of discernible ends and of practical paths to the achievement of these ends. This requires a move away from the anthropological emphasis on cultures as logics of reproduction to a fuller picture in which cultural systems also shape specific images of the good life as a map of the journey from here to there and from now to then, as a part of the ethics of everyday life.
The Future as Cultural Fact
Arjun Appadurai
Working out what makes people do what they do in the realm of politics is fundamental to working out how to make it in their interest to do better things.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
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
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