"To our surprise, most people who got an industrial job soon changed their minds."
How fucking stupid do you have to be?
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Economists stunned to find that sweatshop jobs are terrible and workers didn't want them nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opi
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People who worked in agriculture or market selling earned about as much money as they could have at the factory, often with fewer hours."
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What does it take to fail to realize such basic concepts as that factories capture surplus income from workers? That insight is millenia old
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I love the way that they admit they're wrong, but immediately assume that everything will eventually tend towards their model.
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