There is a bitter irony in the
tying of the means of production to labour, and the responsibility for looking after
the worker to the employer. Hand-to-Mouth living binds the person’s survival to
their labour. A Minimum Wage restricts the work that can be done to that which
can explicitly be monetised sufficiently. If we worked towards a world where
everyone had sufficient Capital to ensure survival, then everyone would have
the most powerful negotiating skill there is. The ability to walk away. The
ability to say the word, “No”. At that point, people will do the work they want
to do. If you need a person to do the work, you will have to make the work attractive
and remunerative enough to appeal to them. True freedom for workers would be if
they were all Capitalists.
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