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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months agoAgain- a limited labor pool means a limited number of the drug that can be developed. That means that only a limited amount can be distributed, which might not be enough to provide it for everyone who needs it.
Why are you making me repeat myself?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s obvious that we see labor differently. I don’t consider labor to be a commodity, and therefore I don’t think any of the concerns you raised about labor shortages are something worth worrying about.
bioemerl@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can't "I don't see labor as a commodity" your way out of scarcity. That's just hilariously absurd.
Literally head in the sand sort of thinking.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually, I can. Because I did. On a fundamental level, we disagree about what labor is. Labor is not a commodity. It’s treated like a commodity within capitalism, but it’s plain and simply not a commodity.
bioemerl@kbin.social 11 months ago
Let's imagine I had 100 rocks. For some reason I have to move them in order to feed everyone.
If I have one person I can move one rock a day.
With two people I can move two rocks.
And so on and so forth.
There is a labor demand - the need to move rocks.
And a labor supply - the number of people you have available to move rocks.
You can't mind game your way out of that. Call it a commodity or not, you still need X people to do Y tasks and the discrepancy between the tasks and the people you have to do them is a measure and very real thing.
Arrogance that knows no bounds.