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Karl Marx: The Alienation Of A Wage Worker

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As stated by Karl Marx, alienation is the idea that workers, most notably proletariats, experience a distancing of the self while laboring for others, such as the bourgeoisie. This distancing from the self-occurs due to an absence of control over what goods or services they are producing. Furthermore, such a lack of control essentially eliminates the need for us to engage in introspection or reflection of ourselves which is needed for expression of the self. One of the most notable conditions that a wage worker may find themselves experiencing alienation is while laboring in some sort of factory or assembly line. These types of workplaces use extremely automated modes of production which require workers to perform very specific tasks
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