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Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Critical Theory Approach to Productivity

There's also a more sophisticated strain of the cultural creek of productivity that draws more on post modern influenced critical theories. I think it' self evident that one of the ways that companies try to increase productivity is to be more exploitative in their relationship with their workers. The sort of french post modern foundation of these new critical theories was very disdainful of what they felt like was kind of old fashioned and boringa economic class pase critiques. It's an interesting tension, interesting tension between em but these are the major critiques of productivity....

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