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On a very broad view of cultural evolution, technical developments have accumulated not so much in ingenuity as along a different axis of the man-tool relationship. It is a question of the distribution of energy, skill, and intelligence between the two. In the primitive relation of man to tool, the balance of these is in favor of man; with the inception of a “machine age” the balance swings definitively in favor of the tool.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
The man who focuses on efforts and who stresses his downward authority is a subordinate no matter how exalted his title and rank. But __the man who focuses on contribution and who takes responsibility for results, no matter how junior, is in the most literal sense of the phrase, “top management.”__ He holds himself accountable for the performance of the whole.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Any emancipatory politics—as well as any critique of capitalism—requires a conception of freedom. Only in light of a commitment to freedom can we render anything intelligible as oppression, exploitation, or alienation. Moreover, only in light of a commitment to freedom can we give an account of what we are trying to achieve and why it matters.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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