reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

Who said anything about wage labor, Miles? I spoke of payment and diffential 
compensation. I was very careful not to use the term wages. In Schweickart's 
economic democracy, most workers are organized in self-managed coops and get 
profit shares, not wages. Medicine would be publically financed, whether 
through insurance or directly, and so physicians and other providers of 
public goods (like teachers) would be paid, directly or indirectly, by the 
government. --jks
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>
>On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> > There's a good deal of that. One hopes it would be less pronounced under
> > socialism. But pay differentials are not the problem with capitalsim. 
>Class
> > differentials are the problem. Btw, I wasn't making productivity the key
> > factor; it's a factor, but not the only one. Another consideration is
> > providing incentives for people to go into kinds of work and areaswhere 
>we
> > want them. Thus we might pay a  premium for people to become physicians 
>in
> > rural areas or inner cities. --jks
> >
>
>Call me a dreamer, but I thought the whole idea of marxism was the
>eventual elimination of wage labor.  Granted, providing incentives
>to people in the U. S. to be physicians in rural areas is a
>reasonable idea, but is that as good as it gets?
>
>Miles
>

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