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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
There is a difference. "Worth" isn't the issue. That difference is the bedrock of economics: supply and demand. In the low level economies, the labor supply of fungible "work units" is plentiful. If you don't show up for work, there are a slew of your peers who would work for a wage sufficient to buy food for that day. And the supply chain for the finished products can be falsified to show that each pair of pants was sewn and assembled by happy workers who sing during their tea and yoga breaks, instead of by child workers who are abused.
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One of the joys of reading either Adam Smith or Karl Marx is the color they add when using the broad brush of history. They were more about where we are going than where we are. That's the focus labor unions lost.
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Last edited by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy; 07-09-2018 at 11:16 AM..
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