Alienated America

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(03-06-2019, 12:48 PM)Dill Wrote:
I'm not going stand idly by while someone criticizes capitalism, the basis of our national success!

I'm going to pitch in and help . . . .   You are describing what Marx called "free labor."  Free in the double sense that workers were freed from any means o feeding themselves (e.g., owning a few acres of land) and free in the sense they were not slaves, so you didn't have to house and feed them yourself, or care for them when sick.  Imagine slaves paying for their room and board (i.e. wages recouped by the capitalist) and that is close to the system you are describing here--except mine workers were free to leave if they wanted--and starve.

Unions mitigated this exploitation to some degree, but only to a degree. "Right to work" legislation emerges from those historical battles.  

"Ya load 16 tons, and whaddaya get . . . ?"

Forgot to mention, right to work is a farce......right to lower wages and less talented employee pools.