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> It was also discouraged to talk about income in Soviet Russia, as an example. What evidence do you have for this? In current "socialist" countries like China
by pphysch 3y ago
> It was also discouraged to talk about income in Soviet Russia, as an example.
What evidence do you have for this? In current "socialist" countries like China, talking openly about wages is common and not discouraged.
The incentives are crystal clear. Price coordination works, and workers in USA are brainwashed against doing it in their own benefit.
- randomdata 3y agoExcept China moved to being a capitalist society many decades ago. The Nordic capitalist societies even go as far as to officially publish everyone's income data. You've not explained your attribution to capitalist societies and seem to be working hard to discredit your own idea. Again, as we have discussed several times now, revealing one's price early starts to become necessary to remain competitive once price data becomes pervasive. We can find many examples in the USA where that has become true. Clearly there is nothing about even American society in particular that keeps everyone holding their price as a well kept secret. Such data is not readily available in the USA with respect to labour in general, however, thus asymmetrically offering up such information puts one at a disadvantage, hence why workers are generally guarded. You even point out yourself that coordination is necessary to remove that disadvantage, so it seems you already understand this beneath the exterior trying to act to the contrary.