"Whatever work you have to do, do it with a singleness of purpose, with all the simplicity, contentment and joy you are capable of. Thus only will you be able to reap the best fruit of work. In fullness of time, the dry leaves of life will naturally drop off and new ones shoot forth.”
-- Ananda Moyi Ma
今此眾生是我所為，加惡於我，我當受之，云何而瞋？」
復次，菩薩知從久遠已來，因緣和合，假名為人，無實人法，誰可瞋者？是中但有骨血、皮肉，譬如[3]累[4]墼；又如木人，機關動作，有去有來。知其如此，不應有瞋！若我瞋者，是則愚癡，自受罪苦。以是之故，應修忍辱。
菩薩若見眾生來為惱亂，當自念言：「是為我之親厚，亦是我師，益加親愛，敬心待之。何以故？彼若不加眾惱[2]惱我，則[3]我不成忍[4]辱；以是故言是我親厚，亦是我師。」
a promise of universal emancipation supported by three centuries of critical, international and secular philosophy that exploited the resources of science and mobilized, at the very heart of the industrial metropolises, the enthusiasm of both workers and intellectuals.
three centuries!
in any enterprise within a socialist system, workers must direct their efforts toward the goals of the enterprise, otherwise the enterprise will not serve its purpose as part of the system.
very true
This has nothing to do with the political or social ideology that may pretend to guide the technological system. It is the fault of technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by technical necessity.
The symptoms listed below are all relevant, but technology is only employed as a means to yield more monetary profit for the capital
freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government.
"law" is the tool to execute the will of the ruling class
than there was after the Industrial Revolution took hold in this country
true cause: capitalism taking over
Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well
Because cultural and ideological beliefs are superstructure built upon fundamental economic and productive relations.
social chasm
The more capitalism maintains its existence, the more exploitation the working class suffers and the more privileges the capitalists enjoy with growing power.
What does it mean that cutthroat competition isn’t just the position of the worker, but also thecapitalist?
Their goal is to monopolize the market and gain more profit.
because illegal immigration is extremely responsive to market conditions
Lol!!
the small manufacturer cannot survive in a struggle in which the first condition of success is production upon an ever greater scale
This is true, even as in gambling.
and the workers employed in this branch of industry are skilled, even educated, workers
It is true that the improvement of technologies calls for power of human intelligence.
自由主义主张，一个人持什么样的宗教和哲学观点，政府无权干涉。他们同样急切地要求赋予每个人选择的权利，可以自由地选择如何将自己融入社会协作体系的方式
We must not dictate everyone's life plans/lifestyle/thoughts/ideology
draw our nourishment from the mass and that it can advance more rapidly only if we inspire it by our example.
Why would you want to control your peers? Inspire them by your own example, instead.
express the share of immediate labour in the value newly created by it
employers hire people with comparable wages offered by their competitors, so that more profit can be generated
Growth of the power of accumulated labour over living labour; growth of the rule of the bourgeoisie over the working class
see the tech industry as an example
it preserves itself and multiplies by exchange with direct, living labour-power. The existence of a class which possesses nothing but the ability to work is a necessary presupposition of capital. It is only the dominion of past, accumulated, materialized labour over immediate living labour that stamps the accumulated labour with the character of capital.
multiplication is the key
The product of his activity, therefore, is not the aim of his activity.
the laborers sacrifice their lives, whose happiness itself is supposed to the end goal of labor
do not receive enough to be able to exist and to propagate themselves
such a harsh fact that the "bare minimum" is the de facto standard
"Variety"/"features" to raise the prices: "I/We" have this security feature in our product, received more education, have more unique skills
overproduction
Question: is this an oversimplified case, in a fully "free market"?
the cost of production
recall how technological breakthroughs in production drove the costs of production down
, to the exclusion of all other sellers.
a monopoly is obliged to raise their prices out of the innate capitalist drive