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Originally posted by G. Adams,
Erm, labour does inherently have value. The fact I can sell it means it has value. The extent of the value is dependant on the work done, and how efficiently it is being done.
You don't have to be doing a hard slog to be part of labour. I'll explain....
There are 2 categories of possession that count in economics: capital and labour
Capital is money invested in order to make a return on it. Someone who does this and lives from such investment is bourgeois.
Somebody who does not possess capital must, in order to live, sell the only thing he has, which is labour. You sell your labour, that is time for working, to someone with capital, who combines your "goods" (that is your labour) with his raw materials, be it iron or data, in order to produce data that can either be sold for profit or used for greater profit making further down the production line.
So anyone who works for somebody else is part of the labour process, because they are selling their labour. I point you to Capital by Marx, most of which is not ideological diatribe, but an explanation of the economic system. |
Hi, my name is Suburbanite. I make $7.5 an hour and I work full time. I am a proletariat, then. I have extensively large savings (the value of which I won't actually post). I invest this money in the stock market and within a few years into real-estate. I am bourgeois, then. So what am I then? It isn't such a dichotomous system, there is a huge amount of room for a mixture of the employee and the investor.