isn't the idea that you are selling your labor to employers a fundamental problem? unions act as a backstop in the best case, but they treat the symptoms, not the cause?
@walruslifestyle I think it's a misnomer to talk about "selling" when you don't have a surplus. That is, it's hard for me to see what the word is talking about if it doesn't take place in a genuine market. Sales are things that happen in markets. And when one of two parties must acquire what the other has in order to live, and the other recognizes and exploits this need, that's not a market. It's more like serfdom. I don't know, I might have this all wrong.
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I mean I think you're right? but it seems that labor is treated like a commodity in economics, and policies are built on top of that assumption?
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*jumping up and down in the corner of a room for no apparent reason* yeah
@walruslifestyle I think of modern economics as this elaborate fantasy world, like fully worked out by a team of con-langers, video game physics designers, etc. It all works (I presume), but only in the context of a dramatic side-step away from reality.