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Re:Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time ... by yyyymmddhhmmss on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:07PM (#19073921)
While I think you’re right about specifics, that is in fact just capitalism. The acceleration you note, and the absurdity of it, is entirely expected by those studying the effects for the last 200 or so years. I think Frederic Jameson put it best:

“All that is solid melts into air”

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Re:Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time ... by umadon on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:19AM (#19076960)
That quote did not originate with Jameson, but with the Communist Manifesto:

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...

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