09-25-2018, 11:15 AM
(09-24-2018, 03:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I'd like Galen to explain how extreme inequality is either (1) necessary for or (2) irrelevant to human freedom and progress. Under Galen's ideal, any reduction in the input of labor implies that competition would drive wages down to zero or near such.
Nobody can yet deny that workers have nothing to sell but their toil.
If he says "become capitalists", then such is not for everyone. You would be surprised at how bad some people are at record-keeping. Many people want an hourly wage instead of a feast-or-famine income. Besides, people without income cannot be customers.
We will need some sort of welfare state just to keep people alive if they have no jobs.
As a damning data point in this argument about worker freedom, the gig economy is slowly collapsing. First, gig workers are finding it nearly impossible to actually live on gig work. Second, the actual gig jobs lacked the freedom they promised -- in exchange for benefits they still don't provide. In short, gig workers feel screwed, and they should.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.