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Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

If you were paid what you were worth the company wouldn’t make any money.

Corporations exist by the excess value of their workers’ labor, by definition.

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phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Eh that’s a paradox though. If the company makes no money, there’s no job for you in the first place making you worth nothing.

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- Jagger2097@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No you are misunderstanding the rules of labor and capital. If I withhold my labor, then the owners have nothing to sell. If they would pay to me, I go to another company with my labor. Capital cannot create value, only labor can.
  
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  - phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can go to another company, but they too wouldn’t exist if they didn’t make money.
    
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