Hey, it's the partial exam of life episode 361 part two. We're going to move right on to

Karl Marx's fragment on machines. We've already been sort of getting into a little bit how

we think machinery effects. Yeah,

interacts with the labor process, how it should free us up all this time, yet because, well,

the capitalists own the machines. They want to choke every moment out of their workers.

It actually dehumanizes them, and he gets very vivid in here about, especially in the way, I don't know,

we can reflect on how this reflects on how machines work now, but in a assembly line sort of

set up how, yes, it reduces individual workers to a cog in the machine that you're getting

very specialized. I really know how to move this one part from here and put it over there.

Like, that's what I do all day, and so I'm really good at that.

No, I just want to go back to this image of choking the labor out of someone.

It's not even squeezing.

It's choking.

It's like loons, right?

Loons, you know, the birds that they fish with

and in Japan, right, is that you have a boat and you have loons on leashes and there's a ring on

their neck so that it's big enough to allow the fish, the smallest fish to go down, so when the

loons go down and get food,

they can get their food. But then the bigger fish gets stuck. And then they go and they

cause them to regurgitate. That's how they, how you can fish. That is horrific. It's true.

I know that story. I hope that's just a product of your demented imagination and not.

It is, it is absolutely true. In fact, I sat on a boat when I was a teenager

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