Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Is teen pregnancy the new right-wing strategy for global domination?" video.
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@NomadSoul76 Karl Polanyi who Mark Blyth quotes all the time said (in effect) you cannot allow the markets to turn humans labor into a commodity like you can with so many things because THEY ARE HUMAN. You would basically destroy society/civilisation and yet that is what we have basically done.
“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of society. For the alleged commodity, "labor power" cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately, or even left unused, without affecting the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity. In disposing of a man's labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity of "man" attached to the tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime, and starvation. Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rovers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw materials destroyed...”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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