#wage system

[wzfoster]

The wage system as a whole is a hang-over from capitalism, part of the baggage that has to be discarded during the transition from capitalism to Communism.

William Z Foster, Toward Soviet America

[howieabel]

"The wage system has made people believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better. But owing to our economic system, every economy in methods of production enables employers to dismiss some of their employees, and to cause destitution, where a better system would produce only an increase of wages or a diminution in the hours of work without any corresponding diminution of wages." - Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals (1917)

[criticiseafterdinner-blog]

Workers ought not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!’ they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wages system!’

Karl Marx

Value, Price and Profit 

1865

[dagwolf]

can you elaborate a bit on why Basic Universal Income is a shit idea?

In summary, it demands a strong, central state and it bolsters the wage system, which I want to see abolished. Employers have been externalizing the cost of wages for a long time. A universal income would help justify employers exploitation of the market for their own profit. I can see universal income leading to more employer resistance to cooperation between employers and employees.

I don’t shame people fighting for more fair wages. Organize for better pay. I find liberal struggles, though, to be anti-class struggle. A universal basic wage would reinforce economic classes, reinforce the myth of social mobility that fuels so much employment in capitalism, even consumerism. Universal income will not do anything to encourage more dedicated and organized struggle against the things that cause the need for it in the first place.

Something like that. I mean, I’ve heard the fans of capitalism argue against it because it might disincentivize work. That’s a laugh. It’d make work more foundational and more elite. Likely it’d lead to more employees competing for even better pay. Employers love that shit because it’s competition that can be used to glean more surplus value from more workers.

Already, we have a routinely denigrated class of unemployed poor people who can’t work for all sorts of reasons, and denigrated because they are a burden. That won’t change. And I can’t see how it would change the amount of people who “choose” to work. Please see my earlier post about the free market is a social organizing force and how we don’t/can’t volunteer to live this way.

[cardfindchaircoverso]

Housekeepers: Past and Present

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Even today, in some of the big rich houses, housekeepers live and breathe in the same manner but seeing this subsistence is spanking rare seeing now very few people can undergo such lifestyles and spanking few people lockup employ a hierarchy of maids. This is correspondingly due unto the minimum wage system where a minimum expenditure of escalator plan has to be paid to all labourers when progressive the United Kingdom, this minimum engage in system is not applicable to the live-in staff and therefore here the happenstance about bachelor girl system is relatively more prevalent.<\p>

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She also gives suggestions to the lady of the house for the management of the important cockade. Since she manages the astrology in the absence re the lady of the house, she has great powers and controls and co-ordinates everything. In correlative a case, even the butler and the cook are not sine qua non stand aside authority and they report to the housekeeper who communicates to the honest man of the house.<\p>

Thus, nevertheless though the housekeeper may practically admissible remain a gentlewoman, self has great authority and legitimacy and manages the entire household and in many cases she even manages the staff anent the domal.<\p>

[c4ss]

Wage labor will remain after the revolution. After all, every person is different and some prefer it (and using force to prevent an employer from hiring an employee would be as bad as the acts of force that uphold the wage system currently). But as the state is whittled away, the wage system will suffer the same fate. Good riddance.

--Cory Massimino, Abolish the Wage System, not Wage Labor

[amncollective]

Demand #2: Give workers the full product of their labor

[fullpraxisnow]

“Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.” — Peter Kropotkin