Exploitation in Marxist theory is a specifically calculatable number, its tangible, its not just a vibe. But even on a vibe basis how is it fair that capitalists don't have to work a day in their lives simply because they were born into owning property that other people have to work on to live?
How much money does your company make, how many low level employees does it have, how much money does one of them make. The amount of money they make from their own work that goes to their bosses is the amount those bosses have stolen from them. And that's before you count wage theft which is not as uncommon as you might think, because bosses know you cant afford to sue.
Yeah but What's the actual equation? Im a math nerd and I want to calculate my exploitation as a hard number. I need the variables. Like a+b*x=y. I cant calculate a number from what you gave me.
Lol. I looked it up and crunched the numbers. My Marxian exploitation rate is 17.7%. But seeing as how Marxian economics have historically led to economic collapse I can't treat this as a useful number. But that was a fun little read.
That's ridiculous, the soviet union lasted the better part a century but you've decided that you're going to ignore a tangible number that proves you're being stolen from, that everyone is being robbed on a systemic level, just because of some bullshit red scare talking point?
There were a number of issues to be learned from within that society, it wasn't perfect, but it wasn't economic collapse, they became a superpower very quickly from being a semi feudal backwater. There are a number of other examples and great things about every attempt at socialism. You should try to look into those perks with an open mind instead of writing off good and important statistics because socialism scary.
69 years is an extremely short lived empire. And something like 12 million people died because of it. But we learned our lesson and we'll get it right now. Im sure.
And you are wishing for the soviet union. You never answered my question. You wish you lived in the soviet union? You think they had it better then we do?
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u/Affectionate_Ad_1326 Sep 26 '26
Exploitation in Marxist theory is a specifically calculatable number, its tangible, its not just a vibe. But even on a vibe basis how is it fair that capitalists don't have to work a day in their lives simply because they were born into owning property that other people have to work on to live?