49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund
What's Left of Philosophy
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What's the Imminent Critique of Microdecon Capitalism?
"Microdecon capitalism is an imminent critique in the sense of like, when someone pays me to do some something, my time is recognized as valuable. And you can see that that's a cost for me because I value that time and in principle to do something that would be an end in itself," he says. "The only way to get that value system going around is to keep having wage labor." He adds: "When we decrease how much people spend away from it, that doesn't register in terms of how we measure wealth" 'I'm trying to trace what that contradiction is, all the pernicious consequences'
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