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> money that was never mine is not “coming out of my paycheck.” That's a funny way of looking at it. All value originates in the labor of people like you and m
by rexpop 7y ago
> money that was never mine is not “coming out of my paycheck.”
That's a funny way of looking at it. All value originates in the labor of people like you and me. It's only an accounting trick that any of it appears to end up in others' hands.
- sokoloff 7y agoIMO, it's a more funny way of looking at it to think that money that no one ever agreed to pay me when I freely negotiated for my salary was somehow originally "mine".
- rexpop 7y agoIt's a well-known fact that most people under-negotiate.
- benchaney 7y agoThat is a bizzare POV. Labor has no inherent value on its own, it is only valuable in contexts when it can be used to benefit others. Constructing those contexts often requires capital expenditure. Labor believing that capital is unnecessary makes about as much sense as sales believing engineering is unnecessary (because we bring in all the money) or vice versa.