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Machinery (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not lighten toil: the more it is used, the more the burden of toil increases.

Machinery (n.) lets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠you produce twice the yarn in an hour, but not twice the exchange value: in the long run 100 pounds of yarn fetch what 50 used to.

Machinery (n.) supplants ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠skilled workers by unskilled, men by women, adults by children, and throws workers on the street in masses.

Machinery (n.) displaces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠workers with a promise of new employment that is really made to someone else — fresh exploitable blood and muscle for the capitalists; the dead may bury their dead.

Machinery (n.) wears ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠out by the hours of labour, not by its own lifespan: make the workers drudge eighteen hours instead of twelve and two years of a machine become three.