Comments by "Wandering Existence" (@WanderingExistence) on "The (Overdue) Collapse of the 9-5 Job" video.

I think Warren Buffett said it in a little bit more relatable way that "if a woman can have a baby in 9 months, nine women should be able to have a baby in 1 month."
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No! It's not about taking a 25% pay cut it's about getting 32 hours FOR THE SAME PAY! Stop acting like companies that make billions of dollars a year can't afford it.
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Wage labor is renting yourself via "self ownership". Employment is literally renting another human being as if they're property. The employer-employee relationship is a very insidious dynamic. Employment is a rental contract, like if you rented capital (say, a chainsaw from Home Depot), you pay rent for the "time preference" (basically the cost of time) for a piece of property. Capitalism is based on a principle of self ownership, which sounds empowering, until you realize that most people don't own capital goods other than themselves, and must rent out the authority over themselves as pieces of "human capital". This is a process of dehumanization where human beings are valued for their return on investment as capital goods. This is why, at the very least, capitalism needs unions and safety nets (or abolishment), or else the system won't value people for their human value. Importantly we must also think about our sick, elderly, and disabled people, as they can't provide competitive economic return for the investor class to value. We must figure out a way to change this economic system if we wish to value each other.
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@Kabodanki And we have laws that can differentiate between the two. It could easily be made a law that if you make over a billion dollars in net income you have to have 32hr be the OT starting point. Stop acting like there isn't a way to address severe inequality.
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@TheFactsMan Employer owe employees wages... What are you talking about? Society is filled with duties. Go back to sociology 101.
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@TheFactsMan And the contract is based on unequal bargaining power... what don't you understand?
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@olivertvist1799 No, I equated the renting other people as human capital as dehumanizing. Work in and of itself does not have to be dehumanizing if people are awarded with the full product of their labor and have input into how work is done. It's like saying "no taxation without representation", but here you come along thinking that all taxation is bad- talk about faux intellectualism. We just want representation in the workplace. No profit without representation!
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@ameridesign Maybe it's a meme?
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@olivertvist1799 Nice strawman. Worker co-ops pay their employees... And they also let workers control the workplace. It's about alienation, not being paid. But sure, run your tired strawman that I've heard 1000x by people that don't understand nuances in political philosophy.
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@olivertvist1799 Which country?
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