Capitalist propaganda about slavery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

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• wage
• slavery
• capitalism
• chattel

[mr1001nights]

@jsnki

see the wiki article on wage slavery. neurosurgeons have a great deal of control over their work

[TimeTelescope]

The feudal serfs of the eleventh century were healthier and longer lived then the rent-paying free peasants of the seventeenth century. The question is not whether we are called free or not. We are less free in many meaningful ways than primitive people. In general life but especially the workplace, you exist in a web of surveillance and micro-management more absolute than most historical slaves would recognize.

[towelhat]

Source for the statistic at 3:16? I looked on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and they reported that in 2010 it was more like 4,500.

[TheAzov]

@jsnki A non-sequitur. I strongly doubt that a neuro-surgeon works harder than stockers at Wal-Mart, who can look pretty sleepless and haggard as well. But the surgeon gets more than well-compensated for his sleepless overtime.

[Svetlozarov]

@xexixk My grandfather worked on the same textile machines for 40 years in the communist utopia called "The Bulgarian Peoples Republik", machines that are changed evry 5 years in the "capitalist" West. Your regulations are what fuck things up, they don't apply to the friends of the state. Here's BP for example watch?v=6lu1pJPqHv0

[xexixk]

@Svetlozarov So in years past why did factory owners have no problems finding workers despite the high rate of on the job injuries and deaths? Why did work place safety not improve overall until those improvements were compelled - both by law and as a result of pressure after the labor movement started?

[unfad1ng]

hmm i guess we should reinstitute slavery then...

After all why should i pay my workers when having them as slaves somehwo makes them better off...?

[BrettDunbar]

Fuck this authoritarian leftist is ugly.

[themaniusedtob]

Even when medical Dr's have a great deal of control over their work, they still had to slave away on call for 2-4 years AFTER school. The Intense work during school is worse then studying law, ull puke & lack sleep for years while others party. Often, neurosurg are dead men walking. 200k? lol youll be half dead b4 you get it & when you finally get it you wont have the time to spend it & much of it will go to pay back school, insurance,divorces,taxes. Docs in my fam r huge slaves w no control

[Svetlozarov]

So a worker could only cut of his arm in a capitalist society? Not, really. If there is a factory with lots of accidents people won't want to work there. To couter that a boss has 3 options.

1. Close the factory. If he can't provide 2 or 3.

2. Raise the salaries. Witch gives extra incetive to work in that factory.

3. Make the place safer. This is a one time cost so it's prefferable to 2.

In any situation the workers win.

[mba2ceo]

wage slave = subservient to survive.

[demammoet]

@Ilikenuman I actually worked painting houses and working with my family Ill tell you we didn't adhere to all safety regulations.

Needless to say if I drop off a ladder by my own stupid fault its much different from not having a safety rail in the appropriate place in a meatpacking facility.

Its in large workplaces that safety measures become that much more important cause you deal with other peoples stupidity or lack of safety measures.