On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:47 PM, David Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. I disagree that there is inherently a power imbalance in favor of > employers. If there > were, employers would not spend a lot of time recruiting and trying to retain > employees, > which they do. Employers would not pay a penny over the minimum wage, which > they > do. Worker relationships are terminated far more often by quitting than > firing. Employees > have the power to screw employers by quitting for a > better job, and they do.
Oh come on. You are far too intelligent to actually believe this nonsense. Just because workers are not *completely* powerless (as in being willing to work for minimum wage) does not mean there isn't a gross asymmetry in the average workplace. Do you really think David Koch is as terrified at the prospect of a janitor quitting as the janitor is of getting fired? > 2. "Power" is a very ephemeral concept. Power to do what? These are > difficult > philosophical issues. How do I test the hypothesis in context? This is nonsense. There is nothing ephemeral or fuzzy about power. It is very real and very concrete and, in a modern capitalist society, can even be very easily measured and quantified. An excellent approximation to how much power you have over other people in this world is how much money you have. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
