Re:Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
by 08-15 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:42AM
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Then maybe those poor exploited employees should go and generate surplus value for themselves without the company.
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Re:Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
by chongli on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:13PM
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They may not have the capital to do so. That doesn't mean they're not aggrieved. It just suggests they do not have the means to do anything about it.
Re:Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
by 08-15 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:10PM
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In other words, the employees can't generate the same surplus value without the company. So the company did in fact generate some of it, so the profit isn't stolen at all, it's earned.
Marx has been dead for 135 years, and people still parrot his confused ramblings without thinking. Amazing.
Re:Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
by tmnvix on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:06PM
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> So the company did in fact generate some of it, so the profit isn't stolen at all, it's earned.
It is common to refer to this as unearned income because it is income received by virtue of ownership not work.