• Christ_Lover [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    You just have to motivate yourself by all of the dunks on political scientists. Here's a cool excerpt from Ch. 15 of Capital, emphasis mine:

    Mr Ashworth, an English cotton magnate, imparted the following lesson to Professor Nassau W. Senior: 'When a labourer lays down his spade, he renders useless, for that period, a capital worth eighteen-pence. When one of our people leaves the mill, he renders useless a capital that has cost £100,000'. Just imagine that! Making "useless", if only for a single moment, a piece of capital that has cost £100,000! It is in truth monstrous that a single one of our people should ever leave the factory!

    He constantly uses dunks like this to justify his point and I love it.