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Very good comparison. I do have more respect for Marx, the modern concept of life/work balance owes much to his concept of estranged labor ("Life itself appear

Very good comparison. I do have more respect for Marx, the modern concept of life/work balance owes much to his concept of estranged labor ("Life itself appears only as a means to life"), as I haven't had to live in a society afflicted by his excesses and misappropriations, unlike the case of Adam Smith.

lordnacho 7mo ago
Adam Smith mentions something similar as well. He talks about how the worker's attachment to the work is different when he's working in a super specialised part of a production process rather than making the whole product like an artisan.
WalterBright 7mo ago
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- Eisenstein 7mo ago
  Where exactly would he go to escape it?
  - WalterBright 7mo ago
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    - viccis 7mo ago
      >Trump Says He Will Have the ‘Honor’ of ‘Taking Cuba’ >President Trump’s words came amid a nationwide blackout and as a top Cuban official said his country would move to open the economy to foreign investors. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/cuba-us-foreign-investment-businesses.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/cuba-us-fo... Turns out you can't escape the free market societies because those societies can't tolerate others.
      - fc417fc802 7mo ago
        It's strange - if we're so confident that our ideology is superior then wouldn't we welcome a small neighbor on our doorstep trying something different as a sort of experiment expected to reaffirm our views? Celebrate them the way you might a silly child, occasionally support them, all while pointing to them as an example of why we don't do what they're doing. Unless of course we fear they might succeed.
        WalterBright 7mo ago
        We interfered with Cuba when they acquired nuclear missiles aimed at the US. Cube prevents its citizens from leaving.
        fc417fc802 7mo ago
        That was an awful long time ago and doesn't reflect the current situation. > Cube prevents its citizens from leaving. What's your point? If they suddenly changed that policy do you believe we would immediately walk back the sanctions and the oil blockade? That isn't how it looks to me. The only way I can think to interpret current US policy is either one of petty insecurity or else an attempt at coercive commercial exploitation.
        WalterBright 7mo ago
        It's not a paradise if the citizens are blocked from leaving it. Nobody is blocked from leaving the US.
        fc417fc802 7mo ago
        I don't disagree but I still have no idea what your point is. What does this have to do with US policy towards them?
        Eisenstein 7mo ago
        You should brush up on your history and look up the Bay of Pigs.
  - thaumasiotes 7mo ago
    North Sentinel Island. Assuming he can get past immigration.
  - waffletower 7mo ago
    Earth: Love it or leave it.
  - tim333 7mo ago
    The main non free market societies are communist like North Korea, or tribal people say in the Amazon who don't have markets. Neither have very high standards of living. A better compromise might be scandinavian countries but Adam Smith would probably have approved of those.
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lordnacho 7mo ago

Adam Smith mentions something similar as well. He talks about how the worker's attachment to the work is different when he's working in a super specialised part of a production process rather than making the whole product like an artisan.

WalterBright 7mo ago

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Eisenstein 7mo ago
Where exactly would he go to escape it?
- WalterBright 7mo ago
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  - viccis 7mo ago
    >Trump Says He Will Have the ‘Honor’ of ‘Taking Cuba’ >President Trump’s words came amid a nationwide blackout and as a top Cuban official said his country would move to open the economy to foreign investors. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/cuba-us-foreign-investment-businesses.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/cuba-us-fo... Turns out you can't escape the free market societies because those societies can't tolerate others.
    - fc417fc802 7mo ago
      It's strange - if we're so confident that our ideology is superior then wouldn't we welcome a small neighbor on our doorstep trying something different as a sort of experiment expected to reaffirm our views? Celebrate them the way you might a silly child, occasionally support them, all while pointing to them as an example of why we don't do what they're doing. Unless of course we fear they might succeed.
      - WalterBright 7mo ago
        We interfered with Cuba when they acquired nuclear missiles aimed at the US. Cube prevents its citizens from leaving.
        fc417fc802 7mo ago
        That was an awful long time ago and doesn't reflect the current situation. > Cube prevents its citizens from leaving. What's your point? If they suddenly changed that policy do you believe we would immediately walk back the sanctions and the oil blockade? That isn't how it looks to me. The only way I can think to interpret current US policy is either one of petty insecurity or else an attempt at coercive commercial exploitation.
        WalterBright 7mo ago
        It's not a paradise if the citizens are blocked from leaving it. Nobody is blocked from leaving the US.
        fc417fc802 7mo ago
        I don't disagree but I still have no idea what your point is. What does this have to do with US policy towards them?
        Eisenstein 7mo ago
        You should brush up on your history and look up the Bay of Pigs.
- thaumasiotes 7mo ago
  North Sentinel Island. Assuming he can get past immigration.
- waffletower 7mo ago
  Earth: Love it or leave it.
- tim333 7mo ago
  The main non free market societies are communist like North Korea, or tribal people say in the Amazon who don't have markets. Neither have very high standards of living. A better compromise might be scandinavian countries but Adam Smith would probably have approved of those.
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