6.5. The Vanishing of the Critical Sense
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The capitalist variety of competition is to outdo other people on the market through offering better and cheaper goods. The bureaucratic variety consists in intrigues at the “courts” of those in power.
From Chapter VI: “The Psychological Consequences of Bureaucratization”. Narrated by Millian Quintero.