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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by antoniuschan99 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:06PM (#28020340)
I took a course on Plato’s republic back in school. Our class conclusion was that nothing has changed in the last 2000 years in terms of society/issues since that book was written!
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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by RhysU on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:05PM (#28022536)
"Progress" is a Western myth. Perhaps "progress" is The Western Myth. Things simply change.

TIL from my Classical Archaeology professor.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by imbnwa on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:25PM (#28022952)
You can't say this kinda stuff on HN since too many people associate their job with creating said progress. Michel Foucault spent his whole life making this exact argument - things simply change.
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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by rantwasp on Sunday August 01, 2021 @01:04PM (#28027871)
you can say it. they just did
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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by imbnwa on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:10PM (#28043328)
For context, grandparent was in the grey at the time of my posting and I was responding with my dismay that such a perspective was striking whoever as not only controversial but also not worthy of a proper reply given that ostensible dismay.
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