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softjobs | 1 year ago

Initially I read that as "Exploiting others"...

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eli_gottlieb|1 year ago

Well yes, in the strict sense, that's what it says: you are better off extracting labor from others via the wage relation. You could swear the headline was written by a doctrinaire Marxist.

thyrsus|1 year ago

Is that not presumed by capitalists as well? It appears to me the difference between the two lies in the expectations (Marxist: bad outcome; capitalist: good outcome) and the degree to which moral judgements adhere (ironically, the putative "scientific" Marxists seem more moralist than the capitalists).