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kleinbl00  ·  3404 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The chart conservatives *have* to debunk

FOR FUCKING RICH PEOPLE, DUH

Let's say you make widgets for a living. You're on an hourly. You get $10 regardless of how many widgets you make.

Let's say your boss is a capitalist who wants to make money. The more widgets you make, the more widgets he can sell and the richer he can get.

Let's say he discovers that a judicious application of methamphetamine and corporal punishment increases your widget output by 200%. He now has twice as many widgets to sell as he did - because your productivity went up. And let's be honest; meth is cheap and he'd whip you for fun so it's a win-win.

For him anyway. You? You're still making $10 an hour only now you've got welts on your back and meth bugs on your wrists. YAY PRODUCTIVITY!

This is why capitalists want to talk about productivity, rather than job satisfaction.