Sublime

the seeming self-valorization hides high levels of unpaid labor and makes workers acceptant of constantly deferred rewards and total expendability since they can be immediately dismissed if they cease to be “fun,” “sometimes even before a job is finished.”32

Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.

What distinguishes the capitalist mode of production is wage labor for the sake of profit, which entails that socially necessary labor time becomes the essential measure of value.

Commission kept shoddy or dangerous consumer goods off the shelves. I was a longtime admirer of Warren’s work, dating back to the 2003 publication of her book The Two-Income Trap, in which Warren and her coauthor, Amelia Tyagi, provided an incisive and passionate description of the growing pressures facing working families with children.

“from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Men are able to accept our services and take pleasure in them because they presume that housework is easy for us and that we enjoy it because we do it for their love.

il soutient le Marx qui célèbre l'homme total, réconcilié avec lui-même, capable de briller dans les tâches manuelles et d'exceller en même temps dans le registre intellectuel, celui qui fait l'éloge du loisir et de la création, des vraies richesses qu'il souhaite rendre accessibles à tous les travailleurs.