• ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There was this one guy who wrote whole books on this kind of stuff. He called this “alienation” and was trying to warn us about it all the way back in like the 1860s.

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      1 year ago

      You talking about Durkheim and “anomie”? If so, yes the concepts since the beginning of industrialization haven’t changed, unregulated capitalism has only exacerbated the core issues of humans not having evolved to work the way companies want to operate.