Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: The Flower Carrier - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Jul 06
  

  marco moncalvo

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  • • That in reality it's not the big basket of flowers that is bone-crushingly heavy--but the burden of being an unskilled worker under modern capitalism is very heavy.
     
    • That flowers are and are a symbol of pleasant luxury--but the flower carrier never sees them: for him they are not pleasant use values, but only exchange values.

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  marco moncalvo on 2006-07-27
  The use of many diagonal lines gives the idea of effort and labout
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  marco moncalvo on 2006-07-27
  and of the task shared by the two characters

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