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  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    they are literally going to give a nobel prize in economics (which is a fake nobel prize to begin with) to whoever comes up with the first capitalist economic model that can explain that workers do not like having their profits stolen from them.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      They'll instead give the prize to the guy who invents the shock collar that can tell when you're being unproductive

    • Melonius [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Nonsense, workers love having profits stolen from them. It is simply the barriers to entry to find new jobs has gotten too high.

      Doing the bare minimum lets the worker derive D amount of surplus value. There is an amount, T , that workers would be willing to pay to be able to switch to a job that they enjoy doing more, however the job search and resume crafting costs workers an amount of work, say R.

      R - T < D will cause an employee to switch jobs and potentially be more productive, so we must make machine reading of resumes illegal subsidize career matching companies to help workers find the job of their dreams for a nominal fee, F , where F < R

      D should also be reduced. In our institutes sampling, D declines dramatically when workers receive death threats, assisting in the lubrication of worker mobility to areas of enhanced productivity in the free market.