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primitive accumulation

Primitive accumulation, the social common, and the contractual lockdown of recording artists at the threshold of digitalization

[W]hen a statesman looks coolly on, with his arms across, or takes it into his head, that it is not his business to interpose, the prices of the dexterous workman will rise.’ (James Steuart, 1767, quoted in Perelman, 2000: 155)

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