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waffletoweryesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Very good comparison. I do have more respect for Marx, the modern concept of life/work balance owes much to his concept of estranged labor ("Life itself appears only as a means to life"), as I haven't had to live in a society afflicted by his excesses and misappropriations, unlike the case of Adam Smith.


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lordnachoyesterday at 10:33 PM

Adam Smith mentions something similar as well. He talks about how the worker's attachment to the work is different when he's working in a super specialised part of a production process rather than making the whole product like an artisan.

WalterBrightyesterday at 10:37 PM

Nobody is making you live in a free market society.

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