WeekInTime Issue 28: Down with Capitalism

Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867

Imagine you’re working in a pin factory, making pins (throwback to the pins!). To maximize output, the factory owner assigns each person one task. One person draws out the wire; another straightens it; a third cuts it, and so on. How connected would each person feel to the final product? How fulfilled would they feel by their work? This week in time, Ka…