
Alienation
Why Theory
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Is the Worker a Commodity?
I was thinking about – are you teaching on Zoom or are you just doing recordings? I can't remember. Although does he use the term commodity in that essay? I think he does it. Well, let's just point that out a little bit. So it basically is that the worker loses itself in the commodity, right? Like that's the idea. It's pretty fascinating. But like I don't get paid directly for that. College and university finances are just like bewildering. Some people think that students pay the – like they pay our salaries, right? And it would be almost nice if that was true.
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