• kwomp2
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    3 months ago

    No, not what they want. What they have to, wich mostly depends on degree of organization in the workforce and instutionalized results of past organization.

    Besides that wages oscillate around the worth it takes to reproduce the capacity to work.

    If they’d pay what they want (always less) market economies could not persist, since they would destroy their workforce right away

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      3 months ago

      It’s just important to think systemically on both sides, labour and capital. Otherwise you end up with confusing essentialism and some kind of concept of “evil”