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From Graeber: "Instead of people selling us or renting us out we rent out ourselves." Graeber is suggesting that renting someone's labour-capacity is fundament
by voyou 12y ago
From Graeber: "Instead of people selling us or renting us out we rent out ourselves."
Graeber is suggesting that renting someone's labour-capacity is fundamentally the same whether the person is renting out their own labour capacity, or the capacity of someone else. Claiming that two things have the same structure is a logical argument; it may be wrong in this case, but it's not "an emotional appeal."
- eggy 12y agoIf you are claiming it is logical because it is an argument from analogy, even if it is a false analogy, then technically I would have to agree to that. My comment about it being emotional is that when an argument from analogy is made between two things that have an obvious, fundamental difference between them, choice vs. force, then I see the person appealing to your emotions under false analogy by using the common term 'rent' for both situations. This is where ad hominem stems from, and although a term in logic, arguments based on it are not logical and usually are filled with emotion.
- jahaja 12y agoIt's not choice vs. force though, it's indirect force vs direct force. To make an actual choice in this case would require that the person about to rent out his or her labor has some alternative to wage labor; such as enough land to be self-sufficient, or perhaps enough capital to work for oneself.