• trailing9@lemmy.ml
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    Leftist - “But if there is a labor market, won’t that make labor cheaper?”

    A third person - "Not necessarily. If the demand for labor is bigger than the supply then markets make labor more expensive.

    Leftist - " How is that possible? "

    A third person - " There are various ways. Workers could start more cooperatives or invest their savings in new companies"

    Leftist - “But why should I care about markets when it is easier to change the political system?”

    A third person - “Is it easier?”

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Damn this third person never heard about the reserve army of labor, the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, and like all of American history showing the hollowing out of working class power. JUST INVEST YOUR NON-EXISTENT SAVINGS INTO NEW COMPANIES ITS SO EASY. And please how will your worker coop survive in this hellscape with a bourgeois state over it? It will be outcompeted and swallowed immediately by corporations who have no qualms over worker or environmental rights. This isn’t china, Huawei (a worker coop) is villified and attacked at every turn here. xigma-male You know maybe you have a point, let’s be more like China.