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Dreams of individual accomplishment and desires to contribute to the common good become firmly attached to waged work, where they can be hijacked to rather different ends: to produce neither individual riches nor social wealth, but privately appropriated surplus value.
— Jul 18, 2026 08:44AM
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we won!!!!!! 🇧🇷🥳 time to get back to my book
— Jul 22, 2026 06:52AM
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all these days and I've only just finished the introduction 🤡🤡🤡 what the fuck is wrong with meeeeeee
— Jul 21, 2026 04:56PM
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"That individuals should work is fundamental to the basic social contract; (...) working is part of what is supposed to transform subjects into the independent individuals of the liberal imaginary, and (...) is treated as a basic obligation of citizenship. (The fact that the economy's health is dependent on a permanent margin of unemployment is only one of the more notorious problems with this convention.)"
— Jul 17, 2026 05:48PM