Joanna wrote:
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>eir rightful due from them (which of course was not true)."
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> Boy is that ever true. My parents and their friends were part of the Romanian intelligentsia. My mother was a writer: and that's what she got to be full time. With months of leave to write books/plays/scripts in the newly liberated castles of the aristocracy. I don't actually remember her having to cook one meal throughout my childhood: we ate two meals a day (almost for free) at the restaurant specially dedicated to writers/artists/professors: "University House."
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I have no opinion on the specifics of this issue -- but it _is_
important to remember that "exploitation" in the Marxian sense is quite
compatible with the life style Joanna describes. It is a technical term,
not a description of standard of living: workers are exploited, Marx
does say, whether their pay be high or low. I would guess that
professional athletes, including with the highest pay, are among the
most exploited workers in the u.s.
Carrol