Hello, if you would please refer to “Wage labour and capital”:

We have just seen how the fluctuation of supply and demand always bring the price of a commodity back to its cost of production. The actual price of a commodity, indeed, stands always above or below the cost of production; but the rise and fall reciprocally balance each other, so that, within a certain period of time, if the ebbs and flows of the industry are reckoned up together, the commodities will be exchanged for one another in accordance with their cost of production. Their price is thus determined by their cost of production.

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What, then, is the cost of production of labour-power?

It is the cost required for the maintenance of the labourer as a labourer, and for his education and training as a labourer.

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Thus, the cost of production of simple labour-power amounts to the cost of the existence and propagation of the worker. The price of this cost of existence and propagation constitutes wages. The wages thus determined are called the minimum of wages. This minimum wage, like the determination of the price of commodities in general by cost of production, does not hold good for the single individual, but only for the race. Individual workers, indeed, millions of workers, do not receive enough to be able to exist and to propagate themselves; but the wages of the whole working class adjust themselves, within the limits of their fluctuations, to this minimum.

The price of education can only fall once the supply of laborer requiring said education falls below the demand of such laborers and, consequently, the price of their labor power rises above the cost of creating this labor power. The (even more) bad news is:

But the productive forces of labour is increased above all by a greater division of labour and by a more general introduction and constant improvement of machinery. The larger the army of workers among whom the labour is subdivided, the more gigantic the scale upon which machinery is introduced, the more in proportion does the cost of production decrease, the more fruitful is the labour.

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Furthermore, to the same degree in which the division of labour increases, is the labour simplified. The special skill of the labourer becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple monotonous force of production, with neither physical nor mental elasticity. His work becomes accessible to all; therefore competitors press upon him from all sides. Moreover, it must be remembered that the more simple, the more easily learned the work is, so much the less is its cost to production, the expense of its acquisition, and so much the lower must the wages sink – for, like the price of any other commodity, they are determined by the cost of production.

This gives me hope 🥰

Israel is a genocidal apartheid state that needs to be dismantled

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There is at least a time component to consider, as you might feel gayer some days than others. It likely also depends on your company, that is, if you are around a lot of hot men who are open to the idea of gay relations but not many hot women interested in you, you might feel gayer than if it were the other way around. So by sorting the population you would skew the amount of gay in a population by grouping gay people around gayer people and not as gay people with the even less gay.

And people look at me weird for masking

Because it would allow people to push narratives and not get called out if they block everyone against them.

Imagine a civil transphobe pushing some narrative that flies below the radar of whatever mods are moderating that comm. If they block all the trans users they cannot get called out on their stuff anymore.

I think there was some discourse on this on black mastodon?

If we eliminate animal ag we will have more than enough space for lower density production, here Seppoland as an (albeit extreme) example:

And since we won’t be eliminating animal ag under capitalism the profit motive is gonna be moot point anyway.

Wild and feral pollinators are not abundant enough to sustain the level of production we presently demand in these crops

and why might that bee??? 🔪🪿

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6lWx-4Ypv4

I also rejected good candidates because I was convinced they would not like the job and leave in a year.

this is an important aspect that i think is overlooked, you dont want to oversell yourself when applying. If I were looking for a salesjob while hunting longterm jobs I would absolutely not tell them about my maths degree it would raisa such a huge red flag.

Ah the twice yearly post

Military contractors mostly. “More aid to Ukraine” is usually code for “we’re giving money to the US MIC”. Also the money isn’t “saved” in that it now exists somewhere and therefore has to have gone someplace to exist there, the government simply doesn’t borrow as much for those services anymore. Probably borrows a lot more for other stuff though so in the end it doesn’t even balance out.

actively taking steps to work toward stopping it despite US influence trying to stop us.

Maybe Ireland is the sole exception to the rest of the subcontinent then. What have they tried to do, slipped completely passed me.

I dont know which part of Europe you’re in but there isn’t really any noticeable resistance to our support of the Occupation Regime Of West PAlestine here in germ*ny. Freedom protests get like a dozen people and thats it. Granted Genocidesmany is the most whipped dog right after TERF island but I’ve not heard any better news from any other so-called country. Some resistance in Greece to orowpean tourists, Lefty Italian football fans doing cool chants but thats pretty much it. The Freedom protests in Seppoland were way bigger with sit-ins at unis and everything.

They don’t care about genocide or anything that’s outside their navelstaring country. Yesterday the libs complained about an anti-genocide post here bcs they used X. The blue MAGA battle against red MAGA is way more important to them. All they want is to go back to their bubble of ‘democracy’ where they keep the fascism for their foreign policy.

Thats the comment I was responding to. Very clearly talking about the people living there and not the goverments foreign policy.

And Europe includes countries that are Allies of the US, Enemies of the US, as well as Neutral countries.

Ok maybe Serbia and Russia get a pass for resisting US control, but this was after they let US culture in and their people got decimated for it, so not really.

Europe is not of the size of South America, Africa or Asia. Neither in land mass nor in amount of people. Talking about euro “culture” is as specific as talking about seppo “culture”, if not more so. I’m sure you’d have no problem talking about Indian culture, and they are even bigger than europe, with more diverse cultures.

Oh please, I am eur*pean and live in eur*pe. The people here are exactly like this. Our sell out US vassal goverments get cheered on loudly for throwing more and more public money into the US MIC to arm nazis in Ukraine, for cracking down on “antisemitism” (by silencing “antisemitic” jews e.g.). Thanks for being such a nice example of what I’m talking about.

We are owned by the US true, but it’s not like there is resistance against it. And we will have to answer for our crimes when our time comes.

navelstaring subcontinent then.

Lets make sure to note that the europeans aren’t any better. Plenty fedditors here with a superiority complex.