the most important economic factor is precisely the thing Marx effectively threw in a bin by calling it "dead labor", since acknowledging its actual centrality was inconvenient to the goal of putting a pre-existing socialist value system on a "scientific basis" by whatever means
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what i mean specifically is pattern or techne, the optimization of processes, doing shit right
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it shows up in your GDP but is is non-quantifiable in I/O econometrics
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making a note for later to remind myself: find that article I read a couple years ago about Japanese intensively studying manufacturing process in Western countries in the 1960s
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I think I had a more specific article in mind but it was about the Kaizen idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
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yeah the existence of kaizen is nice since it indicates at least some motherfuckers grasp this
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