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this stuff probably follows from changes in the way production is understood--before, it was far more central than it is now---now the main emphasis is on maximizing quarterly returns for shareholders. labor is a variable cost. efficiencies are measured in terms of cost-reduction. compromises in the quality of outputs would only register through demand collapse. so maybe, in a general way, this follows from the wholesale subordination of labor to capital.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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