[Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"

[David Green]

Precisely.




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From: Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>; Peace Discuss 
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Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 4:39:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"

The point MArx was making, I believe, is that the more surplus labor there is, 
the more it drives wages down because of the competition for jobs, so 
capitalists find "surplus labor" to be quite  a good thing. Barbara Kessel 


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

The problem with that is if you provide them with work, they're no longer a 
surplus labor force, which eventually threatens corporate profits, military 
recruitment, etc.
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From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"
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>> ...what we have here is a youthful, healthy, highly-skilled, and
>> economically desperate pool of surplus labor. This is to the benefit of
>> corporations, educational institutions, NGOs, the low-paid service sector,
>> the military, and the prison-industrial complex. Of course, in spite of the
>> global spirit of desperate competition, winners and losers remain
>> predictable in aggregate on the basis of their economic backgrounds, albeit
>> with notable exceptions that reinforce the rule. All of this constitutes the
>> so-called “meritocracy” in the neoliberal era.
>
>Interesting paragraph, David. And well written.
>
>The idea of surplus labor is worth looking closer.
>Because I think there is plenty of work to be done.
>* Rebuild New Orleans
>* put out fires in Colorado
>* put up some windmills
>* harvesting fields in Illinois [my cousin is in need of some farm help]
>
>Isn't there a way to rearrange workers to take up the work that needs
>to be done.
>Oh, wait, the CCC and WPA ...
>
>-karen medina
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