On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Athletes produce surplus value, and their labor is alienated. They _are_
> working class. Class is a structural feature of capitalism, not an identity
> or a life style, etc.
>
> Carrol
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> The Wall Street Journal says that Jeter shows that CEO's are underpaid.
>
> Jenkins, Holman. "Jeternomics and the CEO." (1 December).
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646591275493492.ht
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>
> I submitted my post to suggest how the norms of inequality are
> changing; not to criticize Jeter or other athletes. The point is that
> one obvious result of such wage spreads is a repression of wages of
> working class people.
>
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