Comment by waffletower
6 hours ago
Very good comparison. I do have more respect for Marx, the modern concept of life/work balance owes much to his concept of estranged labor ("Life itself appears only as a means to life"), as I haven't had to live in a society afflicted by his excesses and misappropriations, unlike the case of Adam Smith.
Adam Smith mentions something similar as well. He talks about how the worker's attachment to the work is different when he's working in a super specialised part of a production process rather than making the whole product like an artisan.
Nobody is making you live in a free market society.
Where exactly would he go to escape it?
The main non free market societies are communist like North Korea, or tribal people say in the Amazon who don't have markets. Neither have very high standards of living.
A better compromise might be scandinavian countries but Adam Smith would probably have approved of those.
Earth: Love it or leave it.
North Sentinel Island.
Assuming he can get past immigration.
Cuba
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