Interesting. I think of labor theories and the death drive as historical ideas rather than contemporary considerations. I like Joseph Breuer significantly more than Freud. The labor theory is what limited Adam Smith, and his best work was on moral sentiments. Marx has almost everything wrong except alienation in some work environments, but labor theory is also one of those. I developed my own psychological model combining some of the basic insights of Breuer and Perceptual Control Theory, which is the best explanatory psychology I've ever found.
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