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The idea of "free market" (it's only a model, not reality) has an explicit anti-labor bias. The apple doesn't care about its price, but the worker does; this wh
by js8 3y ago
The idea of "free market" (it's only a model, not reality) has an explicit anti-labor bias. The apple doesn't care about its price, but the worker does; this why it's nonsensical to treat both as commodities. But if the price of labor is determined by a divine entity (the market forces), rather than other people (capitalists), what can you do about it? Are you gonna argue with the God of invisible hand?
- Convolutional 3y ago> Are you gonna argue with the God of invisible hand? Especially when you consider modern talk of the invisible hand, and then go back to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and see his one reference to the invisible hand in the book is of something that is against free trade between nations.