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For people at the bottom of the pay hierarchy, the market forces (i.e. Hiring an EMT is more difficult than hiring a waiter/ress) are only enough to push your w
by kristianp 12y ago
For people at the bottom of the pay hierarchy, the market forces (i.e. Hiring an EMT is more difficult than hiring a waiter/ress) are only enough to push your wage just above the minimum wage. As you get promoted into yes directly useful jobs (and become subject to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law ), you get paid more and more. There is no capitalist process that increases an EMT's pay without making sure his manager gets paid more.
Another group mentioned in the article are unpaid interns, e.g. Journalists. The market has somehow valued their jobs at zero.
Capitalism and market forces are nowhere near enough to provide for a quality of life for an intern. Capitalism is a game scored by the amount of money you have. Unpaid interns are losers in this scoring system, but you are called a socialist if you try to protect people like them. This seems to be part of what the article is saying, but using a lot of Jargon. (anarchist vs socialist unions)?