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My labor makes other people's lives better, so I would expect something that replaces my labor to do the same.
by comicjk 14d ago
My labor makes other people's lives better, so I would expect something that replaces my labor to do the same.
- dakolli 14d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism
- atemerev 14d ago[flagged]
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- monkpit 14d agoWould you care to discuss the topic, or just throw grenades? Surely you can come up with something more substantive than this
- atemerev 14d agoOk. This requires the notion of "intrinsic value", which I believe does not exist (all value is subjective), yet is a foundation of all Marxist theory.
- lukewarm707 14d agoit's easy. people are intrinsically valuable. do you believe that people are not intrinsically valuable? that their value is what they do for others, that it is not they themselves the person.
- MadameMinty 14d agoBuddy, admitting your thought processes forcibly terminate on pre-programmed keywords isn't a flex.
- atemerev 14d agoWhy "terminate", Marxist philosophy is a legitimate topic, deserving to be studied. Like a rich sci-fi lore or a history of Tarot magic. Deep, fascinating, and wrong.
- lukewarm707 14d agoglobal development and relief of poverty has relied on there being an economic surplus for all from organized labor. everyone gets a benefit although it is unfairly distributed. i think that there is growing organized labor today that produces no surplus. instead, it transfers wealth from some to others, causing net harm to all in the process. an example of this would be purdue pharma. depending on who you ask the list of jobs and industries which have zero surplus is getting large. swathes of private equity and leveraged financial instruments, shitcoins, management consultancy, are pure deadweight loss. the work does nothing or causes net harm.
- monkpit 14d agoYou’d expect that, wouldn’t you? But, alas…