Re: What do workers compete for?

Robert J. Kolker wrote:

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> royls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Situation 1: A man works to get his lunch from a nut tree growing in
>> nature.  No free lunch there.
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> Underline the word works. No free lunch. He worked for it.
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>> Situation 2: A man works to get his lunch from that same natural nut
>> tree, but this time he must pay another man, who did not plant the
>> tree but claims to own it, enough nuts for his lunch, in rent.  The
>> worker must work twice as long, so that the tree's owner will get a
>> free lunch.
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> Underline the word works. No free lunch. He worked for it.
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> Everything of value in the world costs somebody something.
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> TANSTAAFL.

You are right, of course.  The "owner" of the tree must also extract
enough nuts from the deal to pay the enforcer of the owner****p privilege
a "sweetener".  But most of the nuts needed to protect the owner****p
privilege are collected directly from the nut harvester who must now
pay the "owner" even more for the nut harvest due to the tax on
wages.  It seems that the enforcer and the owner must both "work"
for their position, but the work they do is minimal when we consider
the amount of nuts they get out of the deal.

And being good Repugnicans they will speak of "providing jobs" to
those who harvest nuts.

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