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You just explained like 90% of working class jobs.
by staplers 7y ago
You just explained like 90% of working class jobs.
- danharaj 7y agoMarx was right.
- quindecagon 7y ago.. about nothing. Most people in his day knew this right away but even today some people still deny this.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI'm aware of that. At least now. Less so in my younger years.
- kome 7y agoit's so great you changed idea and you became both more realistic and more emphatic.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI'd like to think the empathy was present. The first-hand and theoretic knowledge was not. Much of the theory I'd been supplied (mainstream economics, an unbeknownst to me at the time hardline Libertarian professor in my intro course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133958), was false. Undoing the damage of false priors and models, especially under ongoing objection and denial based on those, is difficult and expensive in time, effort, and willpower.
- pmiller2 7y agoAnd that's why we need strong unions run by smart people who have the interests of the workers in mind.
- claudiawerner 7y agoIf you go with a notion of exploitation rather than lack of consent, it describes all waged labour.