Doug, you are repeating the same mistake you made last December. If Bill Gates spends millions of dollars hiring workers to undertake unproductive labor at his super mansion in Washington, you fail to recognize that the wages which go to those workers are from revenue of surplus value. In your incorrect approach, if all surplus value were used to hire enormous luxuries for the capitalist class by hiring the appropriate workers there would be no room for higher wages, whether minimum or not. In other words, you are looking only at the surface of the national income accounts, accounts which are constructed to allow dismissal, as impractical, simple worker class demands like decent wages for all. The gimmick demoralizes opposition to capitalism and must be opposed as strongly and as clearly as possible. And I think most workers would not see a $20,000 annual income for 40 hours of weekly work as so impossible, even within capitalism, as you do. Paul Z.
