#value of labor

[msfbgraves]

Had the misfortune of reading the following words here on Tumblr.com, in the Year of Our Lord 2023:

"It can be stressful being the family's sole provider. Many Homemakers like me are unsure what to do to ease the burden..."

How about you find some paid work, madam? You're actually allowed to hold money in your name.

And he's not the sole provider as housework has economic value. I mean, take spaghetti for one person, that might set you back around $20 for one at olive garden, that's $40 for two, well newsflash, the around $30 saved is the worth of your labor (more if you cook better). Fair enough, deduct $1 for utilities that he brings in, that is still $29 of worth created. I promise you he'd be spending that on takeout at least a couple of times a week single because jobs are taxing whether you have a family or not, and nobody cooks 7 days a week. You also save him a complete weekend day of labor on chores, love. Single people need to spend a saturday or sunday plus several weeknights on housework and errands. You know this, you do it all day. If he's worried he might get sick he needs better insurance, and if he can't afford insurance, again, you need to bring in more income.

But I assure you he spends less than single people and has more leisure time because of all the services and economic value of the labor you provide.

At least value what you bring to the table.

#internalised misogyny #housework #value of labor #unpaid labor #for the love of all that is holy #make a good prenup so you don't get left with nothing should he split

[saturnclownsplexus]

Normalize giving bad reviews to apps who ask for them and then not giving feedback, you are a 7 figure company, hire a damn QA tester don't make me do unpaid labor.

#communism #value of labor #fight the power

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#republicans #conservatives #us politics #memes #shitpost #conservatives be like #republicans be like #gop policy #gop platform #gop #republican family values #republican homophobia #child marriage #child labor laws #libertarians be like #fuck libertarians #libertarian #libertarians

[thoughtportal]

Dude who makes $250 million a year tells people should work for the love of it

#tiktok #WGA #billionaire #media #capitalism is a scam #CEO #aflcio #workers rights #surplus value #union workers #workers vs capital #workers #labor vs capital #labor rights #skilled labor #capital vs labor #labor movement #labor movements #labor #collective action

[republikkkanorcs]

#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #republican family values #republicans want child labor #AOC #republicans hate America

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism was NEVER noble.

#late stage capitalism #stolen labor value

[kafkasapartment]

The Floor Scrapers, 1875.

Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas.

#painting #art #work #peinture #pittura #pintura #malarie #1800s #value #capital #france #labour #labor #hommes #männer #renovation #realism #naturalism #impressionism

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

john????? is that you??

Greetings, cat emerging from a cloudy sky. Your pfp reminds me of how when we look up at a cloudy sky, there is a whole universe above the clouds that we do not see, which for all I know might include adorable cats peeking up out of the clouds.

I am just a coffee company that donates its profit to charity. But every brand on the Internet has some poor sap running their social media accounts, and the poor sap who runs this one is named John Green.

#creating the lore #so that people understand that I am a coffee company #but the coffee company's tumblr is run by a person #i would say “it's complicated” except every brand in this world does this #only usually they anonymize the admin #because of course brands want to anonymize all labor to prevent labor from being properly valued by socioeconomic systems

[queerism1969]

#child labor #child abuse #child development #children #traditional moral values #libertarian #republican #constitutional originalism #classical liberal #conservative #fuck capitalism #capitalism #social issues #anti capitalism #late stage capitalism #current events #corporations

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The Robot That Makes Houses For Free

I have built a robot which creates new houses entirely for free. It's an amazing new innovation, a huge leap forward in robotics and it's going to solve homelessness, probably.

The way it works is the robot goes around to hundreds or thousands of other houses all over the town, and rips out the construction materials it needs from each of them.

But don't worry! It only rips tiny little pieces out of each house, completely insignificant bits which they would never miss, and then it makes this entirely new house for free out of all the little bits and pieces it took. Free houses! How amazing is that!

You just type into the computer what kind of house you want, what style of architecture, how many floors, what kind of floor plan, and it'll just do it - like magic! Out of nothing! For free! What amazing technology, it's incredible what we can do with modern advancements.

Anyway, this recent plague of houses collapsing is really worrying. Apparently they're falling down because they're being slowly worn away by some kind of mysterious erosion? Huh, that's weird.

But it's kind of a blessing, really, because it means now there's a huge market for new houses, so we're going to build even more robots to make those houses, and so long as the traditional old construction companies keep making new houses for us to sample, we can make new houses totally for free forever!

Wait, what do you mean the constant supply of free houses is crashing the market and driving them all out of business?

#this is a post about AI art #ai artwork #ai art debate #ai art discourse #ai art is stolen labor by definition - it cannot exist without the work of real artists to feed its algorithms #and it repays them by driving down the value of their labor and devaluing their work #you wanna play with your AI art toys then institute a classless and money-less post scarcity society where it can't hurt anyone first

[rejectingrepublicans]

#republican assholes #political humor #republican family values #resist #Sarah Suckabee Sanders #Republican traitor #Sarah Huckabee Sanders brought back child labor

[steveyockey]

I think the main thing I want the “but if they’re just pouring me coffee or putting a croissant in a bag do I REALLY need to tip them” crowd to get is that you can do whatever the fuck you want but I always tip fellow food service people and everyone else I know in the industry does the same. the call is yours I just want to be clear that we look out for each other in a way you apparently can’t fathom

#got mad thinking about the value of my labor lol #OP IS FROM THE UNITED STATES. op is from the United States. op is participating in a conversation specifically about tipping in the #United States. OP doesn’t make enough money for you to say anything about any other country on this post !

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #news #twitter #tweet #republicans #conservatives #gop #gop policy #gop platform #republican family values #more perfect union #iowa #iowa senate #child labor #child labor laws #worker's rights #working class #working class history #working class solidarity #night shifts #assembly lines #alcohol #alcohol servers #alcohol sellers #bartending #2023

[thoughtportal]

#tweet #tweets #twitter #existential comics #labor #sell your labor #surplus value #capitalism is violence

[racefortheironthrone]

What do you think about the labor theory of value?

Oh, this is going to get a lot of orthodox Marxists mad at me...

Contrary to Marx's whole thing about socialism being a scientific, materialist analysis rather than an ideology mom, I think the labor theory of value only makes sense as a normative claim, rather than an empirical one. Labor has an inarguable moral claim to the wealth it creates, certainly one that is superior to the claims of capital, although one could quibble in a Georgist sort of way about the role that the community at large (as opposed to the direct producers) play in creating value.

But as a matter of empirical fact, labor is merely one source of value, arguably the largest source of value, but it is not the only source of value and it takes very little legal pad brainstorming to come up with a bunch of sources of value that have nothing to do with labor. Many of the best minds of Marxist economists of many generations were driven mad by futile attempts to square this circle, to no avail.

This is why I am so ardently a believer in revisionism in the spirit of Eduard Bernstein. If socialism is to be "scientific," a big part of that has to come from treating the sacred texts as something that has to be constantly questioned and put through rigorous experimental tests, rather than holy writ. Marx and Engels were not saints nor prophets - they were two 19th century dudes trying their best with the ideas they had to hand, and they made tons of mistakes and got stuff wrong all the time, and socialism will only prosper from admitting that.

#marxism #socialism #political economy #social democracy #labor theory of value

[redheadedfailgirl]

I just had a riveting discussion with a self proclaimed anarcho-capitalist at work, whose opinions included:

Tipping is bad because 'contracts with your employer are voluntary and they can leave if they're not paid enough.' He will still tip if he thinks his wife is watching

If you're stuck inside a torture chamber with an apple you can bite every ten seconds that sends you to paradise for a year, it is illogical to bite the apple and humanity is broken for thinking so

The ending to the good place was bad because the characters weren't being logical and there was so much shit you can do with the afterlife.

The marxist labor theory of value 'isn't true' because paintings have arbitrary value

Heidegger was an idiot

Kant was an idiot

Nietzche was an idiot

He is an anarcho-capitalist

If I don't have 100% certainty for something than I can't truly say that I know something is true, and isn't it illogical that people do that?

I have to see this man every Monday from now until I quit. We work one on one.

#he was also horrified that i give credit to phenomenology despite not seeming to know what that is? #and now that i think about his stupid thing with the car i could just as easily use the sun as an example #and that would be even dumber #my god this man is a fool #and every single thing he said he followed up with 'and i know thats an unpopular opinion' like wtf you weird little edgelord #go read jordan peterson and leave me alone #he ended the conversation with 'i guess i didnt change your opinion' despite me not sharing any coherent opinions whatsoever #mans is getting off on 'rational debate' and im laughing in his face when he tells me 'marx's labor theory of value isnt true' #marx #heidegger #neitzche #anarcho-capitalist #communism #anarchism #capitalism #kant #the good place #thought experiments #i guess #phenomenology #simulation theory #maybe? #tipping #ethics #my fat tranny nuts