>It still seems to me that there is a new class here, whose interests neither
>coincide with the working class nor the capitalist class. Certainly (and
>much to my displeasure as a fourth generation socialist and great-grandchild
>of a disenchanted Bolshevik) I found myself increasingly pleased by the low
>cost of services whose costs are most closely linked to wages (like fast
>food), and equally displeased by the political and financial power of the
>super-wealthy who owned the companies I worked for but understood little
>about what I was doing (like Larry Ellison).
Pleasures and displeasures that you describe have and will be always found among better paid workers and petty producers whose concrete labor has yet to be, or perhaps cannot be, as de-skilled, standardized, Taylorized, etc. as other kinds of concrete labor -- as long as their labor is in high demand. -- Yoshie
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