The trick is not getting in until 10:30 a.m.

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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Job flight

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>Inputs and outputs, though.  I certainly wouldn't want to live in a
>precapitalist economy or in most forms of Actually Existing Socialism,
>but one argument that I always think ought to get more traction is that
>capitalism has singularly failed to shorten the working day.

I'm with you on that. But if there's more money to be made out of a longer
workday, the stinking capitalists will lengthen the workday.
And bend many of our minds around to thinking of it as normal. Even a petit
bourgeois radical such as myself didn't leave the office until 9:30 last
night.

Doug

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