[lbo-talk] Beyond Growth or Beyond Capitalism?

hinchcliff gracehinchcliff at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 13:37:33 PST 2014


At 03:34 PM 1/17/2014, Carrol Cox wrote:


>Well, people need to be engaged in creating their lives, and that involves
>work.
>
>I don't know that I'd call that "full employment," but still, work is a real
>issue.
>
>========
>
>Full Employment has nothing to do with work or the need for work. It makes
>sense only on the irrational basis that isolated inndividuals must labor or
>starve.
>
>Production does not depend on everyone being engaged in paid employment.
>
>Prior to about 12000 BP no one worked, but people got along fine for some
>200 thousand years.
>
>Carrol

Who's the author lately who's made the argument that corporations purposefully pursued policies to keep us working 40+ hr weeks? Reason being: they were afraid of what would happen if we had more free time on our hands.



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