A man does not “by nature” wish to earn more and more money, but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose. Wherever modern capitalism has begun its work of increasing the productivity of human labour by increasing its intensity, it has encountered the immensely stubborn resistance of this leading trait of pre-capitalistic labour. And to-day it encounters it the more, the more backward (from a capitalistic point of view) the labouring forces are with which it has to deal.
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I think “by nature” most men would have a part time job and spend the rest of the time with friends who have the same hobbies, but then they get married and have to support kids in an increasingly expensive world.
I think “by nature” most men would have a part time job and spend the rest of the time with friends who have the same hobbies, but then they get married and have to support kids in an increasingly expensive world.
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