25 Jul 2024 7:48 pm
Intrinsically, 15$ is worth nothing.*Vegas » 25 Jul 2024, 7:35 pm » wrote: ↑ I agree with unions, but that doesn't change the inherent system. If capitalism is going to succeed, then the system demands for employees to be dishonestly used by paying them an undervalued wage. The unions can negotiate a better pay with better conditions, but at the end of the day, the employees cannot be paid their worth any more than one can profit off of breaking even. If an employee is worth $15/hr and the employer pays them $15/hr, then the employer is breaking even.
Absolutely nothing.
nobody, in fact, owns anything at all. What people 'own' is a contract with law enforcement such that the police will pretend you own it, and are willing to use guns to enforce that attitude. That is the ONLY part of ownership that is not an illusion. Your country has a military to defend what it 'owns'...money or ability to distribute currency etc etc...from some other country that might want to take it.
but again...police and militaries and all of these things only work because they are composed of people who respect the country and are willing to follow orders from their leader to kill people the leader wants them to kill. Without that critical aspect of the 'social contract'...all of this collapses. And 15$ really does become worth the money it is printed on...which is zero. Especially if someone with a gun decides they would rather have it instead of you.
People might forget the existence of all these middle things...but it is always present. Everything depends on people thinking that the state is legitimate...or at the very least dangerous.