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>Consider Facebook, do all the uses who generate the content and activity that gives Facebook its value count towards "labor" It is labour, so yes. What do you
by claudiawerner 8y ago
>Consider Facebook, do all the uses who generate the content and activity that gives Facebook its value count towards "labor"
It is labour, so yes. What do you think the concept of labour in socialism is? Only then can we judge if it is inaccurate. For instance, Marx never excluded mental/information-work/management labour, and in fact he mentioned them specifically at many points.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI was seriously just thinking that I'd like to see a Marxist analysis of this from you. So please, keep going. My initial attempt at it: Facebook is the capitalist, owning the means of production. The workers aren't the employees of Facebook (I mean, yes, those are workers too, but they aren't the ones we're concerned about here). Instead, the workers are the users who generate the content. Facebook profits by keeping the fruits of their labor (their content). What would it look like for the workers to own the means of production?