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Is Labor a Commodity?

Is Labor a Commodity

  • Yes, it's a commodity subject to the market of wages offered

    Votes: 9 32.1%

  • No, it's not a commodity, workers should receive a living wage

    Votes: 11 39.3%

  • Yes, fill in your own justification

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • No, fill in your own justification

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • Total voters
    28

I'm in tears I'm laughing so hard. Are you seriously seriously seriously trying to make your case based on an old song? And you didn't even use the right title.
 
that doesnt disprove the claim or the assertion that labor is a commodity
 
ksu_aviator said:
I'm in tears I'm laughing so hard. Are you seriously seriously seriously trying to make your case based on an old song? And you didn't even use the right title.
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Nope. I was reinforcing my case based upon the obvious cultural referents upon which the song is based and continues to resonate.

And I was obviously suggesting you look up the term "company store".

And did you have any expansion on your cite in definition #4 wage slavery?

Its one thing to question the relative weight of various points of view. Its entirely another to ignore factual historical information, pretending the references themselves are imaginary, rather than their relevance to the issue at hand. Ignorant or intellectually dishonest is what it is.
 
TurtleDude said:
that doesnt disprove the claim or the assertion that labor is a commodity
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Continue to read the thread; and answer these questions:

 
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Goldenboy219 said:
Continue to read the thread; and answer these questions:
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labor is one commodity that goes into producing a product. for example a tortilla is a combination of labor, energy and materials
 
liblady said:
semantics. practically, labor is a commodity.
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It is not mere "semantics" that caused Ricardo to fail to bring classical value theory to its conclusion.

Goldenboy said:
Is the work an automated forklift does a commodity? This is a serious question.
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No.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
Communists often refer to the commodity of labor.
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It's the most basic unit of value a person can offer, every economic model has to use it.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
No.
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{playing protagonist}

So it is not a matter of action; but the said (or potential) result of that action which renders labor a commodity?!?! I reach this conclusion under the assumption that time is not a commodity. Would you agree?
 
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Labor isn't a commodity. Labor power is. The worker exchanges his ability to work for his wage. It is a commodity because it is useful and exchangeable. You should know where I'm coming from with this...

Time is as much a commodity as space.
 
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lpast said:
Not about the rich...about what the rich have done to the bulk of americans and to the country..out of GREED....
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Then, the same argument can be made about how the poor costs the US hundreds of billions in welfare. The rich has it's own faults, yes, but this isn't exactly the thread to talk about that.
 
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