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Here are some books by Marx on the subject of wages https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf
They're both pretty short
yeah what he said
like it always makes me cringe when people say that in communism janitors would be paid the same as doctors
Pretty ridiculous isn't it
yeah
All workers who work in that workplace also own it
And doctors and janitors don't work in the same place
well janitors can work in hospitals
The reason doctors and lawyers make so much money is because they literally own their own means of production and have control of their workplace
And so of course the rest of the capitalist system has to keep up with this
And so doctors would be usually paid that much in other places due to the market
i personally want to become a lawyer and eventually become a judge
And defend the rich in court?
well you got do what you got to do
The nigga Sankara
wtf
@Borzo your second point has been *proven* wrong by history. wages do not fall, but rise. marx was wrong.
thanks though
maybe ill look at that more
No it isn't
saying no doesn't make it false
or
true
The only reason that wages have risen is that it goes against the capitalist mode of production
Because they are afraid of revolution
And so they have to increase wages to push away that potential revolution
Forced to increase living standards to appease the proletariat
However, wages ever drop today
And are continually dropping
Because that threat of revolution is no longer around
Due to the fall of the Soviet Union mainly
Let us now seriously consider the main cases in which a rise of wages is attempted or a reduction of wages resisted.
1. We have seen that the value of the labouring power, or in more popular parlance, the value of labour, is determined by the value of necessaries, or the quantity of labour required to produce them.
If, then, in a given country the value of the daily average necessaries of the labourer represented six hours of labour expressed in 50 Dollars, the labourer would have to work six hours daily to produce an equivalent for this daily maintenance.
If the whole working day was twelve hours, the capitalist would pay him the value of his labour by paying him, say, $50
Half the working day would be unpaid labour, and the rate of profit would amount to 100 percent. But now suppose that, consequent upon a decrease of productivity, more labour should be wanted to produce, say, the same amount of agricultural produce, so that the price of the average daily necessaries should rise from fifty to 65 dollars