Rep. Steve King compares workers to commodities like beans and corn

[edthecynic]

Those complaining about Capitalism are either too stupid to capitalize on it or too stupid to know when they already have.

Because it is worth repeating

Because you are too stupid to know just how stupid it was the first time,

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

 

[American Cowboy]

Those complaining about Capitalism are either too stupid to capitalize on it or too stupid to know when they already have.

Because it is worth repeating

Because you are too stupid to know just how stupid it was the first time,

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

You better watch this Shit4brains

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[auditor0007]

King is simply stating out loud what all too many of the people running the GOP at present believe. To them, anyone working for a living, whether with their hands or their minds, are not truly human. To be human, they, like their hero, Ayn Rand, believe that you have to be totally amoral and take from others without giving anything in return.

King, and those like him are the enemies of all that work for a living in this nation. From the school janitor to the scientist in our great institutions of learning, King despised them all.

Free marketers are gonna be fucked once we hit ZPG.

 

[rdean]

Retards

YouTube - ‪Stick Figure Logic: The Truth About Capitalism.flv‬‏

Funny, an entire video about "capitalism" and it never used the words "Supply and demand" or "investment" a single time.

 

[edthecynic]

Retards

YouTube - ‪Stick Figure Logic: The Truth About Capitalism.flv‬‏

Funny, an entire video about "capitalism" and it never used the words "Supply and demand" or "investment" a single time.

It also never mentions how Gates screws over any competition by breaking their applications when they run on his operating system. It talks about the people who got rich through Microsoft, but it doesn't mention the people who were unemployed at Netscape, for example, when he prevented Netscape from running on Windows.

To use the wording on the video, people wanted Netscape. It was a great product and the most popular browser at the time, but Gates wanted to take over the browser market so he prevented Netscape from running on his OS and a not so great browser, Internet Explorer made by Microsoft, had to be used instead. So much for the crap about making a great product that people want and you will get rich in a Capitalistic system. True Capitalists are Monopolists who try to prevent other products from competing with theirs no matter how great the competing product is and no matter how much the public might want it.

 

[Mr Natural]

Back in the day, it was the Personnel Dept.

Now it's Human Resources.

That change in title speaks volumes as to how corporations have come to view workers.

 

[Trajan]

Those complaining about Capitalism are either too stupid to capitalize on it or too stupid to know when they already have.

Because it is worth repeating

Because you are too stupid to know just how stupid it was the first time,

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

and pray tell that does that disqualify the op? economics is based on the management of scarcity, labor is no more or less a force employed and /or manipulated by scarcity.

capital may be created by labor, capital is also created by say, soybeans.... labor can become scarce, so can soybeans, the correlation is same, labor becomes scarce via better production methodology, education, loss of skills, or lack of such in some certain econ. or geographical climates.

You Marx et al wish like the Clayton act wish to argue so as to disconnect the economics which commands the result of the manipulation of scarcity to find a political platform, ( as Lincoln did) from which to make the model of economic mgt. somehow unfair, greedy and or harmfully manipulative. good luck on that....

 

[Trajan]

Back in the day, it was the Personnel Dept.

Now it's Human Resources.

That change in title speaks volumes as to how corporations have come to view workers.

becasue they have been browbeat into using a facade to satisfy the dopes who have the same tired political argument.

 

[edthecynic]

Because it is worth repeating

Because you are too stupid to know just how stupid it was the first time,

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

and pray tell that does that disqualify the op? economics is based on the management scarcity, labor is no more or less a force employed and /or manipulated by scarcity.

capital may be created by labor, capital is also created by say, soybeans.... labor can become scarce, so can soybeans, the correlation is same, labor becomes scarce via better production methodology, education, loss of skills, or lack of such in some certain econ. or geographical climates.

You Marx et al wish like the Clayton act wish to argue so as to disconnect the economics which commands the result of the manipulation of scarcity to find a political platform, ( as Lincoln did) from which to make the model of economic mgt. somehow unfair, greedy and or harmfully manipulative. good luck on that....

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
Daniel Webster

 

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[edthecynic]

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

 

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[Quantum Windbag]

Rep. Steve King compares workers to commodities like beans and corn | Crooks and Liars [Video]

Labor is a commodity.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Of course they do.... That's the REAL basis of Capitalism. Those with the CAPITAL win, those without, lose.

Why do you think it's called CAPITALIZING on someone else's misfortune?

That's why the country was DESIGNED to have elements of Capitalism AND Socialism built into it. Too much power either way is guaranteed misery.

Oh, so that's what capitalism is about. Winners and losers. Cuz I thought it was about "supply and demand" and "investment".

That's because you listen to Democrats.

 

[snjmom]

Labor is not a commodity. Labor is a factor of production.

And King is an utter tool.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Labor is not a commodity. Labor is a factor of production.

And King is an utter tool.

If labor is not a commodity why do unions sell it?

 

[snjmom]

Labor is not a commodity. Labor is a factor of production.

And King is an utter tool.

If labor is not a commodity why do unions sell it?

Unions do not "sell" labor.

A commodity has no differentiation across a market. Are you actually making that argument for labor?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Labor is not a commodity. Labor is a factor of production.

And King is an utter tool.

If labor is not a commodity why do unions sell it?

Unions do not "sell" labor.

A commodity has no differentiation across a market. Are you actually making that argument for labor?

That depends on what you mean when you say that. The government clearly states that labor is worth a minimum amount no matter who is producing the labor, witness the minimum wage law. It does not mater if that worker is a teenager or a college grad, if they do that particular job they get paid exactly the same.

Unions also make that claim, which is why they sell their labor based on the years a person works and not their personal ability. Both of those make labor fungible, and thus a commodity.

 

[bodecea]

Rep. Steve King compares workers to commodities like beans and corn | Crooks and Liars [Video]

In the military we call it being thought of as cannon fodder.

 

[snjmom]

If labor is not a commodity why do unions sell it?

Unions do not "sell" labor.

A commodity has no differentiation across a market. Are you actually making that argument for labor?

That depends on what you mean when you say that. The government clearly states that labor is worth a minimum amount no matter who is producing the labor, witness the minimum wage law. It does not mater if that worker is a teenager or a college grad, if they do that particular job they get paid exactly the same.

Unions also make that claim, which is why they sell their labor based on the years a person works and not their personal ability. Both of those make labor fungible, and thus a commodity.

I disagree. A minimum price floor does not create an ipso facto declaration of fungibility. And that price floor is NOT in effect for all labor ie waitstaff, sales staff, farm labor, etc etc The labor of the brain surgeon and the sewer worker are not identical. The union doesn't sell labor, it only acts as a representitive of the individuals that do. All the monies in a union contract go to the individual workers, there is no profit for the entity "union".