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oh, the 90s... lincidentally, aughs, i was one of the people who put systems like that in place. Though obviously not yours, as contract labour in the 90s was paid more than the permanent staff... and tey really weren't that miserable

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whilst it appears that you are speaking of the downsides of post-information society, i think that actually you are speaking of the symptons, the alienation symptomatic of the network spectacle. Lets go further and imagine that we do not live in the spectacle, or even a partial exit a post-spectacle - would the automation, the network exist? I think it cannot. Look at our desktops, phones, writing devices, software... all is spectacle. None of it will after capital dies

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