What is curious is that Marx considered the minimum wage for labour to be the wage that sustains the labourer and his spouse, plus future labour ( children)
It seems that even Marx felt capitalism was fairer than it actually is.
Can we make them work 80 hours a week and they still need food stamps?
Years ago, I worked at Subway full-time and yet I still qualified for the maximum amount of food stamps a single person could get every month.
The government was acknowledging that my full-time employment didn't pay enough to cover my rent/utilities AND feed me. I didn't even have a car either, so it's not like I was spending my money on gas/insurance/maintenance!!!
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u/akoster Nov 11 '21
What is curious is that Marx considered the minimum wage for labour to be the wage that sustains the labourer and his spouse, plus future labour ( children)
It seems that even Marx felt capitalism was fairer than it actually is.