On Wage and Kapatol was:Re: [P1] truth in advertising...still OT

[Robert Crawford]

On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 03:57 , Eric B. Richardson wrote:

> Don't disparage 'wage slavery' tho because ultimately, most people will 
> make contracts to utilize their skill and labor for people that own 
> businesses and need them. Keeping the bargaining fair and equitable 
> between the two negotiating parties, that is the key.
>

I am not going to quote all of Karl Marx "On Wage and Kapatol" but I 
will point out that there is not fair and equal negotiating between 
someone who has surplus and someone who has desperate need.  There 
neither can, nor will, there ever be.

Please no knee jerk reactions to Karl Marx, the man was a genius.  What 
he failed to do, and so has everyone else, was to develop a equitable 
socialist DEMAND based economy.  He instead settled on a SUPPLY based 
economy, which in all models leads to stagnation.