Quotes About Production

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

The play's plot is highly self-reflective, centering on a conflict between two teenage actors involved in the production of an original play, itself titled Teen Play. Said Diggins, "It's an unusual conceit, one truly meant to challenge its audience. What I intend to deliver," he added in a tone well known to longtime radio listeners, "is an utterly mah-velous evening of theater.

Here are two facts that should not both be true: • There is sufficient food produced every year to feed every human being on the planet. • Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population — 2 billion men and women — malnourished one way or another, according the United nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

A production line with high levels of model variety is more valuable when combined with an inventory and order processing system that minimizes the need for stocking finished goods, a sales process equipped to explain and encourage customization, and an advertising theme that stresses the benefits of product variations that meet a customer's special needs.

The majority of the antibiotics produced in the world go not to human medicine but to prophylactic usage on the farm.1336 This may generate antibiotic resistance.

Thousands of edible mushrooms grow naturally, with worldwide annual commercial production in the millions of tons.71 But check the nutrition label on a carton of mushrooms and you won't see much beyond some B vitamins and minerals. Is that all mushrooms have? No. What you don't see listed is the array of unique myconutrients that may boost our immune function.72

Whole-wheat pasta cooks in about ten minutes. Improved production technologies have created a new generation of whole-grain pastas that no longer have the rough and mealy texture of yesteryear. My favorite brand is Bionaturae because of its deliciously nutty taste

Physical proximity, of course, facilitates the common education of the affects, but also essential are the intense experiences of cooperation, the creation of mutual security in a situation of extreme vulnerability, and the collective deliberation and decision-making processes. The encampments are a great factory for the production of social and democratic affects.

Neither money nor credit is a factor of production. Debtors do the work to pay their creditors. This means that interest is not a "return to a factor of production." Little credit is used to expand production or capital investment. Most is to transfer asset ownership.

The way societies have coped with this deepening indebtedness should be the starting point of financial theorizing. Money is not a "factor of production." It is a claim on the output or income that others produce. Debtors do the work, not the lenders. Before a formal market for wage labor developed in antiquity, money lending was the major way to obtain the services of bondservants who were compelled to work off the interest that was owed.

The foundation myth of pro-rentier economics is that everyone receives income in proportion to the contribution they make to production. This denies that economic rent is unearned. Hence, there is no exploitation or unearned income, and no need for the reforms advocated by classical political economy.

Financialization is the major dynamic polarizing today's economies. Its aim is to appropriate the means of production and rent-extracting privileges for a creditor class to load labor, industry, agriculture and governments down with debt. Employment, wages and capital investment cannot recover as long as the resulting debt overhead is left in place.

Most bank loans are not to create new means of production but are made against real estate, financial securities or other assets already in place. The main source of gain for borrowers since the 1980s has not derived from earnings but seeing the real estate, stocks or bonds they have bought on credit rise as a result of asset-price inflation – that is, to get rich from the debt-leveraged Bubble Economy.

At one point," remembers Peter Rummell, "Celebration was going to be modeled on a factory town, like Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is a tourist destination where people pay to watch other people make chocolate. Ultimately imately, Rummell rememberers, "No one could figure out what could be made or produced in our new town that would draw these tourists.

"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

Keep reports out of production Reports can, and should, be served elsewhere. Don't jeopardize

Too many production systems are like Schrodinger's cat—locked inside a box, with no way to observe its actual state.

See whether the DBA laughs at the queries If it doesn't pass the laugh test, it shouldn't go into production. Period.

Things happen in production—bad things that you can't always predict. One

True utility computing centers are on the horizon, but right now, the only real ones are a pale approximation of this vision. In the world that the other 99.9% of us inhabit, production systems are deployed to some relatively fixed set of resources. Applications

Capitalism is neither a person nor an institution. It neither wills nor chooses. It is a logic at work through a mode of production: a blind, obstinate logic of accumulation.

The problem is not changing people's consciousnesses---or what's in their heads---but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción, y no su estatuto de reproductor.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción.