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Is This a Collectivism?

The whole notion of seniority seems to me like a collectivist victory against the forces of capital which would rather pay everyone and even pay older people less, right? Because they're less productive. Do you think it's a good example of Hegelian contradiction? because at the same time that this is – I think clear – like, clear victory for – for labor but it also is a thing that like, it calcifies the system as such. That even – it's a kind of Frankfurt school point almost, right? Like that even the victories of labor end up cementing actually the ruling capital of the cityology.

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