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>Companies would pay their employees a fair wage for their labor That's an extremely romanticized version of historical capitalism, especially if the context i
by mrgoldenbrown 10y ago
>Companies would pay their employees a fair wage for their labor
That's an extremely romanticized version of historical capitalism, especially if the context is the United States.
- nostrademons 10y agoI'd thought about including a "(well, occasionally)" parenthetical with that sentence, but figured it distracted from the main point of the comment. Regardless of fairness, the point was that workers paid for goods with the same money that they were paid for their labor. None of this "pay for services with your data, such that other companies may or may not be able to sell you more in the future depending on quirks of your psychology" complexity that seems to feature in the modern economy.