302). The production mode rebels against the exchange mode due to a surplus of production going on for one product, but in the exchange there were several other people trying to sell exactly the same product. Now machines have taken over people, because one machine can produce more than all workers put together, even faster. “Those machines, the most powerful instrument for shortening working time, become the surest means of making every moment of the worker's and his family's time available to the capitalist for the purpose of increasing the value of his capital.” (English page 300). People are losing their jobs because these machines are taking over. Capitalists use these machines to their advantage because they no longer need to pay workers, which results in them saving money. While capitalists save, workers lose the jobs that earned them
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