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I meant to draw the comparison and forgot ;-)

Withdrawal of labour is no longer effective against capital imo, as it is de facto class-based. AC increasingly doesn't need labour, although it still needs staff. But it remains a good way to influence politics, if the numbers are large.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 08:40:50 AM EST
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AC increasingly doesn't need labour, although it still needs staff.

Translation: AC has largely relegated its labour-intensive tasks to countries in which slavery is culturally acceptable and strikes are broken up with judicious application of machine guns.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 08:45:34 AM EST
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