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Political economy tends to see work in capitalist societies as divided between two spheres: wage labor, for which the paradigm is always factories, and domestic labor – housework, childcare – relegated mainly to women. The first is seen primarily as a matter of creating and maintaining physical objects. The second is probably best seen as a matter of creating and maintaining people and social relations. [...] This makes it easier to see the two as fundamentally different sorts of activity, making it hard for us to recognize interpretive labor, for example, or most of what we usually think of as women’s work, as labor at all. To my mind it would probably be better to recognize it as the primary form of labor. Insofar as a clear distinction can be made here, it’s the care, energy, and labor directed at human beings that should be considered fundamental. The things we care most about – our loves, passions, rivalries, obsessions – are always other people; and in most societies that are not capitalist, it’s taken for granted that the manufacture of material goods is a subordinate moment in a larger process of fashioning people. In fact, I would argue that one of the most alienating aspects of capitalism is the fact that it forces us to pretend that it is the other way around, and that societies exist primarily to increase their output of things. ↗

— David Graeber

#capitalism #communism #feminism #free-market #imagination

The greatest enemies of freedom are the extremely rich and the extremely poor, because one is willing to buy it while the other is willing to sell it. ↗

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

#freedom

Commoners Supermarket! Commoners Supermarket! ↗

— Hikaru and Koaru Hitachiin

#manga #supermarkets #humor

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does. ↗

— Steuart Henderson Britt

#business #commerce #humor #marketing #business

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. ↗

— Simon S. Tam

#api #asian #asian-american #branding #business

It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers. ↗

— David Amerland

#google-semantic-search #google-seo #marketing #business

The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory. ↗

— Satyajit Das

#businessman-as-warrior #finance #financial-markets #business

Affiliate Marketing Has Made Businesses Millions And Ordinary People Millionaires. Affiliate Marketing Mybe Your Next Best Career Move. ↗

— Larry Bussey

#network-marketing #social-media #business

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. ↗

— Jeffrey Carver

#market #soul #writing #inspirational