• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    Workers should be able to realize the value of what they produce in basically getting the pure profits of the firm.

    Value doesn’t get to the heart of the matter. Property rights to positive and negative fruits of labor do. When you consider what taking on the risk and initiative means in this context, it is really taking on the negative fruits of labor (liabilities for used-up inputs). Workers should get both the positive and negative fruits of their labor, and take the initiative