RE: Are you tired of the rich getting richer on the back of your employment?
The workers already do all the work, why don't we get all the money?
It's not like money makes widgets, nor loads them on the trucks.
nor do the workers buy the trucks, or the machines to make widgets, or pay for th lectricity ro run the machines, or buy the stok to make the widgets..
That seems very unfair to the guy who is investing in all that machinery, stock and transport, with no extra reward for his risk.
Why is it that you agree to trade your labor for less than a tenth of what it is worth?
where's you data on this?
I know of no 1:10 ratio of labor / profit ratio such as that - in small and medium companies.
How long has it been known that teaching the slaves to read is bad for longevity in a slave economy?
So wouldn't 'the capitalist lords and masters' ensure that didnt happen..?
Look around, literacy is at an all time high.
because of capitalism, maybe...?
The two statements are contradictory to each other.
salaries and individual value work against the system because fundamentally all humans are born equal (inalienable birthright). That is a flaw embedded in monetarism, which wants to quantify and monetize everything.
All humans are born equal.
Outcomes are not equal, becuase meritocrcay and hierarchies are real, and endemic throughout the natural world.
I see us as part of nature, as natural beings, and do try not to fight it.
We are part of nature, why would be any different then every other living vertebrae animal?
Money finds value, (in a free market) nothing more. It doesn't quantify.
The price discovery mechanism is the most sensitive, dynamic, sophisticated model of discovering value, known to man.