All workers deserve more than just the cost of their labor power
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Its also about more than just payment. Treat people like humans.
First things first they need to just hire my autistic ass for something.
Remember a discussion amongst the wealthy with one guest telling them some hard truths that they don’t listen to. You have to provide your workers with positions that not only pay well to live but also decency and respect. Second is pay your damn taxes.
We dont ask much of the wealthy.
Leave the world better than you found it. Dont be a dick.
You might as well be asking them at this point to end themselves then destroy their immortal souls if they believe in that.
We should really be “asking” for a lot more
Ron Swanson would hate this. But Nick Offerman would approve.
(If he’s not a bootlicker.)
Nick Offerman only licks Megan Mulally’s boots
As well he should
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Y’all get paid enough to survive?
Workers are, as a rule,
not paid the cost of their labor powerdenied the full fruits of their labor. The scam of capitalism is that workers are usually paid a small fraction of the value they generate for the company. Some of that value must necessarily go to material inputs, maintenance, and upgrades of the workplace, as well as contribution to necessary public services; some goes to the worker; but the bulk of it goes to owners and shareholders for no good reason.Labor-power is paid its value, which is the cost to reproduce a day of labor. The problem is that workers work beyond the number of hours needed to do so due to capitalist relations. In other words, a worker sells their labor power for 1 day to earn the ability to survive another day, but the capitalist gets out of it more commodities than the worker needed and thus comes the profit, this surplus value creation. Commodities are sold at their value, not above it, to still make a profit.
Huge simplification though, there exists super-exploitation of the global south via imperialism, there’s also the reserve army of labor and intentional homelessness to force lower wages, and the struggle for higher wages by workers, and much more. Might need to re-read Capital tho, I’ve been focusing on DiaMat and hismat and am a bit rusty economically.
You explained it plenty well enough 👍
Never hurts to reread capital though
Thanks!
Labor power is not the same as labor. The price of labor power is the minimum cost of reproducing labor. That’s enough money to provide food, water, and shelter. The quality of your shelter is up for debate though. Effectively, the price of labor power is how much it cost for you to be able to come to work the next day. VPP covers the topic in detail
I appreciate the correction. That’s my signal to do another push into the books.
That’s capitalism…
Chef’s kiss emoji on this one. Absolute legend.
Panel two should be “pay me minimum wage”
What you said and what the panel does say is the same thing
No, because I don’t think minimum wage is enough to survive in a lot of places.
That’s how they get you to work multiple jobs for more hours to extract further value. If you are surviving then you are being paid the value of your labor power or being subsidized by family.
Exactly my point it should be high enough so that people can live
No you’re missing the point, minimum wage does neither
And minimum wage should be at living a life level, but there still needs to be a minimum and a maximum cuz we can’t give all work the same reward
This meme is even better knowing that the Ron Swanson character is unapologetically libertarian.
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He is, but Nick Offerman would absolutely say this.
