PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoRemember that one year America had the greatest social democracy in the world?hexbear.netimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1101arrow-down1imageRemember that one year America had the greatest social democracy in the world?hexbear.netPM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareiByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 month agoA lot of these things seem obvious before you read theory and realize that you can actually pay workers their fair share without needing to increase surplus value and without needing surplus value at all
minus-squareRNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoBut what would happen with the people who feel entitled to steal that surplus value? All the honest builders of gaudy McMansions would starve!
A lot of these things seem obvious before you read theory and realize that you can actually pay workers their fair share without needing to increase surplus value and without needing surplus value at all
But what would happen with the people who feel entitled to steal that surplus value? All the honest builders of gaudy McMansions would starve!