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Capitalism, hey? The garbage will pile up until somebody is willing to take away the garbage for what you are willing to pay. Then you will know what the real v
by Cushman 13y ago
Capitalism, hey? The garbage will pile up until somebody is willing to take away the garbage for what you are willing to pay. Then you will know what the real value of garbage removal is to you, when you can no longer use the inhumanities of poverty as a bargaining chip.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThing is, the system is already stable. I take that as meaning it is a reasonable approximation of where most services belong. Don't forget that the real value of garbage removal to me is not what defines the fair market price. It is the combination of what it is worth to me, and what someone will do it for. In the case of garbage removal, it is likely the latter is lower than the former, and thus where the market settled.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoBut again: labor supply levels are not like supply-levels for other commodities. If you want a continuous supply of fresh tomatoes, you give your plant water and sunlight, and if you want a consistent supply of willing labor, you should pay living wages. Otherwise, you're not talking about bargaining in a fair market but about the religion of arbeit macht frei or karoshi, the worship of self-immolation through work. (For those surprised by my turn of phrase, yes, this is in fact what "Arbeit macht frei" meant prior to WW2.)
- zem 13y agonope, it's the combination of what it is worth to you, and what someone will do it for, when the alternative to doing it is to starve. if you remove that large influencing factor, you would get a lot closer to a fair market price, where the unpleasantness of a job factors more strongly into the value of doing it.