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“Who can forget the contract issued at Apple’s Foxconn plants in China, in 2010, forcing workers to sign a pledge not to commit suicide due to workplace stress?4”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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“But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people’s work, would I ever work sixty hours?”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

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“With info-capitalism, a monopoly is not just some clever tactic to maximize profit. It is the only way an industry can run.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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“In Gaza, in August 2014, I spent ten days in a community being systematically destroyed by drone strikes, shelling and sniper fire. Fifteen hundred civilians were killed, one third of them children. In February 2015, I saw the US Congress give twenty-five standing ovations to the man who ordered the attacks.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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