#御用学者 — Public Fediverse posts
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> For similar reasons, #AdamSmith warned that in any civilized society governments would have to intervene to prevent the #DivisionOfLabor from making people “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be.” He based his rather nuanced advocacy of #markets on the thesis that if conditions were truly free, markets would lead to perfect #equality. That was their #MoralJustification. All of this has been forgotten by the #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者
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> Wilhelm von Humboldt,..inspired John Stuart Mill .. like.. Adam Smith, regarded creative work freely undertaken in association with others as the core value of a human life. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts on his own impulses and desires...
#NoamChomsky #DemocracyAndEducation #Humboldt #WilhelmHumboldt and other thinkers on #Work #CreativeWork v. #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者