I don't think we're disagreeing.

Nathan: > a WPA like program that
 > employs people at the minimum wage level (generating a true minimum
 > wage by the way) and can be bid out of the program at any time by
 > capital.

these folks would not be counted as "officially unemployed" but would
be part of the reserve army.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM, nathan tankus
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim said..."it's true that the reserve army of the unemployed that threatens
> employed workers doesn't have to correspond to officially-measured
> unemployment."
>
> that's not what I said Jim. what I said was I'm not convinced the
> reserve army of labor has to be unemployed and I'm not convinced that
> that was Marx's position either.
>
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