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> You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more. This. The co

> You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more. This. The company is probably generating oodles of profit. Any profit whatsoever represents the labour of employees for which they haven’t been paid. These employees have generated value through their labour that the company has realized, and the company has decided to steal this value from the employees rather than giving it back to them. So OP deserves more pay. The company has already determined that relatively low skill levels deserve a certain minimum pay. This does not mean that these employees are overpaid, but rather that OP is underpaid. This focus on fighting against wage increases for others who are beneath you is a psi-ops explicitly engineered by the Parasite Class, to make the lower classes fight their class war for them. The Parasite Class are laughing all the way to their obscenely-bloated offshore investment accounts.

bpt3 4y ago
You're really espousing the labor theory of value here?
- melvyn2 4y ago
  maybe you should explain why not?
  - bpt3 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theory_of_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theor... https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/everything-wrong-with-the-labor-theory/ https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/everything-wrong-wi... (free subscription required to read the full article, but you can use a throwaway email address) In short, it's too simple to work in an economy as complex as ours, it completely ignores the impact of demand, and it assumes all workers are equally productive.
mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
The dehumanization in your message really detracts from your argument.
- bpt3 4y ago
  I thought it was the usage of a completely discredited economic theory to support their argument, but we can both be right!

bpt3 4y ago

You're really espousing the labor theory of value here?

melvyn2 4y ago
maybe you should explain why not?
- bpt3 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theory_of_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theor... https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/everything-wrong-with-the-labor-theory/ https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/everything-wrong-wi... (free subscription required to read the full article, but you can use a throwaway email address) In short, it's too simple to work in an economy as complex as ours, it completely ignores the impact of demand, and it assumes all workers are equally productive.

mandelbrotwurst 4y ago

The dehumanization in your message really detracts from your argument.

bpt3 4y ago
I thought it was the usage of a completely discredited economic theory to support their argument, but we can both be right!