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A contract of employment is a contract for time. Giving up the hours is all that is required. It's the job of capitalists to extract value from that time. If t
by neilwilson 4y ago
A contract of employment is a contract for time. Giving up the hours is all that is required.
It's the job of capitalists to extract value from that time. If they do they get paid. If they don't they go bust.
The number of 'artificial jobs' is entirely in the gift of capitalists. If they don't like them, all they have to do to make them go away is hire the people's time and use it better.
If they can't do that in aggregate, then they lose out until they do. That's how the stabilisation works.
- t0suj4 4y agoA contract of employment is also usually tied to some vague job description the employer is expecting from the employee. It's your job to take the most value out of your time, either selling it to someone else (getting employed) or helping a grandma across the street. Hiring a bag stuffer is less of an artificial position than hiring eleventh construction worker on a project for four. Artificial job - A job that doesn't produce value for the employer
- neilwilson 4y agoIt's not your job to get the most value out of your time. It is the person who is hiring you's job to get the most value out of your time. That's where the surplus that pays them comes from. Otherwise you are in business and the surplus should accrue to you, not your employer. The employer has to extract value otherwise they have no right to that value.
- t0suj4 4y agoHow does that work on an island away from civilization? I still need to get the most value out of my time so I don't starve to death.