>>>> "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> 03/30/00 11:54AM >>
[This article, from today's NY Times, ties in with a reference I made a
couple of days ago here to a Wall Street Journal piece, "When Work Is
Frantic." What saps people are! I can remember years ago when fax machines
first arrived at the workplace and office go-getters were keen on having one
installed in their home. Even then I could see that this was a
camel's-nose-under-the-tent development that would simply create another way
for my corporate overlords to barge into my personal life with more work
demands. To me the big difference between today and earlier ages is that so
many people today buy into this nonsensical notion that they are "players"
in the corporate world and have no notion that they are fungible nonentities
who are being exploited û in that disgusting, ominous new buzzword û "24x7."
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CB: Increasing the extraction of surplus value by lengthening the work day, or absolute surplus value.
CB