[lbo-talk] Slavoj Žižek . The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat

[// ravi]

On Jan 26, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:18 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> 
>> At any rate, the reason I don’t want to go down this path is that if we truly believe “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”, then it seems a bit misdirected to worry about the missing millions of NBA stars (which is not the same thing as suggesting that they be demonised).
> 
> I think your instincts are right on this - and anyway it's really
> problematic to quantify any _individual's_ creation of value, since it
> necessarily takes place in a social framework.
> 

Good point.

	—ravi