/WRK/ - Wagie and Work

It seems to largely exist to skirt labor regulations, save money on equipment and maintenance, and avoid existing unions. Operating factories, farms, etc. this way would probably not be sustainable, but I can see how, like, a nationalized taxi-esque service could potentially take influence from the model, with a smaller portion of the profit taken for public funds through the service rather than by larger portion taken by a private employer. I still don't know if that's a good idea; a socialist economy with adequate programs would probably prefer to build a lot of mass transit, since that's more efficient than operating individual transportation services.

>>728
A lot of Fiverr and call centers could be described as part of them.

Gig economy is just a farce. It only works if you have enough investment in it.
Otherwise, get an official second job.

https://karlxxi.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/services_surplus_value/


Is he right?


>The assertion that "workers in the non-material production sector… create surplus value for the owner without creating any new value" is incorrect.
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>This implies that what these workers "create" is surplus value, but not value itself… At the same time, what they BRING to the owner (and "bring" is the appropriate word) is, of course, value… This terminology is illogical and inconvenient.
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>It is correct to say that service sector workers do not "create surplus value for the owner," but rather BRING PROFIT to the owner. And that they are "productive" from a capitalist point of view because they "produce" PROFIT for "their" capitalist.
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>Profit in the service sector is not surplus value. Surplus value is produced only in the sphere of material production. Simply because value is produced only in the sphere of material production. Therefore, it is incorrect to say that "unpaid labor in the sphere of non-material production is the source of surplus value." But it is correct and necessary to say that in any sphere, the only source of profit is unpaid labor. And the only source of surplus value is also unpaid labor, but only unpaid labor in the sphere of material production.




"The labor of hired workers engaged in the realization of goods, that is, the transformation of goods into money and money into goods, does not create either value or surplus value, but it gives the commercial capitalist the opportunity to appropriate a part of the surplus value created in production. "Just as the unpaid labor of the worker directly creates surplus value for productive capital, the unpaid labor of commercial hired workers creates for commercial capital a share in this surplus value" (K. Marx, Capital, Vol. III, 1953, p. 305).


It explains the lack of leverage such workers have over their owners

damn…

>>738

how evil.

> it changes a boolean flag and ignores it

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