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for all our cleverness and wisdom we and others rarely resist the short-term impulse for self-preservation, however self-defeating it may ultimately prove to be.
Self presevation quote
we resemble hamsters on their spinning wheels: no matter how fast we run, we are not really going anywhere.
Hamsters on a wheel
if those wages fall – as happens when work becomes more mechanical and less skilled – there will come a point when they are too low to support the sales of the goods they help produce.
Wages too low to support sales of goods
As for your romantic idea of a cooperative, have you ever known anything important to have been accomplished democratically, with everyone sitting around, talking incessantly, paralysed by the complexity of it all? No, this is impossible.
“The trouble with socialism is that it takes too many evenings.”’
The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.
