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Unless you live in a communist country, you are part of a labor market.
by Workaccount2 5y ago
Unless you live in a communist country, you are part of a labor market.
- Bancakes 5y agoAmong many offers, I chose a company on absolutes, not relatives. The culture is good, and I want to make serious products that serve a purpose. I get paid less than my peers but enough for a living. Is that communistic?
- Workaccount2 5y agoYou are simply pricing in external variables to your compensation, which is part of how markets work.
- Bancakes 5y agoI get what you're saying but I wouldn't program web apps for 3x the pay even. I don't "feel" the American way of switching jobs and being a general purpose programmer.
- ggariepy 5y agoI don't think there are any purely communist economies operating in the world today, and even if there are, there is still a market. It's a badly distorted market that performs poorly, but a market nonetheless. If you have human beings involved, there's a market; it goes with the territory as part of the human condition.
- turtledove 5y agoWorkers coops are neither labor market nor necessarily communists. If everyone democratically operates the company and shares equally in profits, there's no wage labor being performed.