“The logic of maximum performance is no doubt inconsistent in many ways, particularly with respect to contradiction in the socio-economic field: it demands both less work (to lower production costs) and more (to lessen the social burden of the idle population). But our incredulity is now such that we no longer expect salvation to rise from these inconsistencies, as did Marx.”

—  Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.xxiv

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