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"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the
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instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production,
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and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the
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old modes of production in unaltered form was, on the contrary, the
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first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes.
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Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of
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all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation
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distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed,
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fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable
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prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become
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antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air,
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all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face
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with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with
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his kind." - Karl Marx, <i>The Communist Manifesto</i>
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<p>In this quote by Karl Marx, he explains a very troublesome element of
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capitalist society: "all that is solid melts into air." This, according
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to Marx, is necessitated by the bourgeoisie. This is true in that in
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order to obtain profits from new markets, the bourgeoisie must find a
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way to commercialize every aspect of our lives, to continuously
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revolutionize them. This is, effectively, the task of the entrepreneur,
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who is always looking for new markets to commercialize. This is often
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thought of as a good thing, as due to the expansion of Liberalism we've
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become accustomed to it, but it has very sinister consequences when left
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to its own devices without any restrictions or moral direction. Perhaps
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the most obvious case of the sinister nature of this trait of Capitalism
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is in the emergence of dating applications/websites.</p>
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