Comments on: New frontiers in worker porn http://platosbeard.org/archives/363 whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises Thu, 17 May 2012 00:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: platosbeard http://platosbeard.org/archives/363/comment-page-1#comment-6664 platosbeard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:40:33 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=363#comment-6664 Hmm... I am till learning this Disqus thing... hence my empty comment above. What I wanted to write:<br><br>Doyle, I agree with you entirely. You summarised it perfectly with this line:<br><br>That trumps social ties only in the sense holding a gun on someone does. Hmm… I am till learning this Disqus thing… hence my empty comment above. What I wanted to write:

Doyle, I agree with you entirely. You summarised it perfectly with this line:

That trumps social ties only in the sense holding a gun on someone does.

]]> By: platosbeard http://platosbeard.org/archives/363/comment-page-1#comment-6663 platosbeard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:31:13 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=363#comment-6663 By: Doyle Saylor http://platosbeard.org/archives/363/comment-page-1#comment-6662 Doyle Saylor Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:09:40 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=363#comment-6662 Hello Ravi,<br>Interesting argument. Since this is the most aggressive oppressive environment for workers - piece work - in which earning just at minimum wage is carefully gauged wouldn't that suggest that people are being coerced to go toward a way to get enough money to live by constantly finding ways to up the amount of work they must do to simply survive? That trumps social ties only in the sense holding a gun on someone does. And lasts as long as the effort to subvert the methods fails. I'm sure you agree. Anyway these sorts of reports merely illustrate that the worst aspects of labor in capitalism are still being used. These practices go way back and are nothing new despite the claim 'economists' are at the wheel of these experiments. Hello Ravi,
Interesting argument. Since this is the most aggressive oppressive environment for workers – piece work – in which earning just at minimum wage is carefully gauged wouldn't that suggest that people are being coerced to go toward a way to get enough money to live by constantly finding ways to up the amount of work they must do to simply survive? That trumps social ties only in the sense holding a gun on someone does. And lasts as long as the effort to subvert the methods fails. I'm sure you agree. Anyway these sorts of reports merely illustrate that the worst aspects of labor in capitalism are still being used. These practices go way back and are nothing new despite the claim 'economists' are at the wheel of these experiments.

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