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In reply to the discussion: The State Of The Job Market Job Seeking Process Is Reducing Applicants To Desperate Beggars. [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)"Instead of allowing all people to follow their entrepreneurial spirit into the endeavors that fulfill them, capitalism applauds the small number of entrepreneurs who capture large portions of mass markets. This requires producing things on a mass scale, which imposes a double-uniformity on society: tons and tons of people all purchase the same products, and tons and tons of people all perform the same labor. Such individuality as flourishes amid this system is often extremely superficial.
Have you seen the suburban residential developments that the housing boom shat out all over this country? Have you seen the grey-paneled cubicles, bathed in fluorescent light, clustered in office parks so indistinct as to be disorienting? Have you seen the strip malls and service areas and sitcoms? Our ability to purchase products from competing capitalist firms has not produced an optimally various and interesting society."
http://www.alternet.org/visions/7-huge-misconceptions-about-communism-and-capitalism?page=0%2C2
or thanks to xchrom
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024435332
As Marx said, to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner
without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.