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user-inactivated  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Ethic of Marginal Value

I commonly get the feeling when reading Jacobin that something slightly slimy is happening in my brain; that there's something wrong with the arguments presented (straw men, maybe), but that I can't seem to connect Jacobin's dots well enough to even see if they hold up.

mk's right. There's no mechanism for wages to follow social utility, thus it is very odd to assume they do or would.