[lbo-talk] Paris getting ready for jail

[andie nachgeborenen]

Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the
prophets! . . .  But what avails lamentation in the
face of historical necessity? If to classical economy,
the proletarian is but a machine for the production of
surplus-value; on the other hand, the capitalist is in
its eyes only a machine for the conversion of this
surplus-value into additional capital.

Karl Marx, Capital, vol I, Ch. 24, sec. 3.

But Paris  Hilton is a rentier, not a capitalist.

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> 
> 
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> > 
> > Would a million dollars make any marginal
> difference
> > to Paris Hilton? Would it even be a statistically
> > significant change in her net worth?
> 
> This raises a general question about all members of
> a capitalist ruling
> class: having more than they can (or even their
> heirs) can possibly
> spend, why do they still struggle for MORE MORE
> MORE. A capitalist
> _firm_ (whether corporate or 'privately' owned) has
> to try to grow to
> stay even -- that is the central dynamic of the
> system. But individuals
> within the class don't, and yet many of them do!
> Many also don't but
> transform themselves into rentiers, but as the case
> of Paris Hilton (but
> also I gather of Paul Allen on a bigger scale)
> continue to try to
> enlarge their 'nestegg' beyond reason.
> 
> Carrol
> 
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