House of Paine

human capital vs human commodity

   confusions abound over
 the benefits  of skill upgrades

 and profiteers 
couldn't be happier
 about it 

they say
 lets  
call it 
a capitalization

thats it 
 call it  
huuuman capital


all the better to ....

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what a cottage industry !

the last great one 

  see 
all those little households
 out there
most of em 
are producing
 one and only one 
type of  
 marketable product

  laboring capacity 

 they're building it 
on their own time
and with
 their own resources 
so to speak
and then 
making it  
available for sale  
     so many 
 workable hours 
     per week 
             per year
                        per life time 
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we're told 
ad nauseum 

that
this is indeed 
the greatest beauty
 of our system


the liberty
 of all our peoples 
to produce 
themselves 
as whomever
 their time and effort
permitts 
and
 sell  themselves
if they can
as much as
 they want
for as long as
 they want 
to whom ever
 they want
 

and
  indeed 
they do 

build and sell 
build and sell  
 
 by the millions
 apon millions 

each job day 
they pour forth 
from their modest abodes 

to sell themselves

and 
each one
we're assured 
 gets a fair price 
for thatunique piece
 of valuable 
 huuuman kapital 
that is themselves

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enough bafoonary!

and to get 
more 
to the point 

let me suggest to you 
that 
when it comes
 to
 manpower 
management 

when it cmes 
to
 husbanding
  that most un-natural
 of 
natural resources

when it comes
to 
the  care
 and
development 
of our
very own
 human 
productive capacity 

we americans
seem all  too often 
to forget

most of uz 
when it comes down to 
the specifics 
end up  seling 
ourselves 
by the hour 
to profiteers 


yes most of us 
are 
self sold 
on job markets 
as commodities 

maybe 
not just like 
 grapes and logs 

 or pony rides even

but more like that 

then like
say 
 a picasso 
 drawing

face it folks most of us 
are hardly unique
 jobholding-wise 

whats more  
 mostly 
we sell ourselves 
for use
 in making
other   commodities 

 stuff or services 
that themselves
 are to be sold 

  we sell ourselves
 as a commodity

but we  
are bought by 
 profiteers 
with capital
as capital 
and
 our  laboring capacity
 is put to tasks 
to return a profit
on capital 

a return   above cost
to the capitalist
who hired 
our  capacity 
for this purpose
alone 

noto bene pals

our sale 
of our selves 
does  not 
return a profit 
to  uz
the owner 
of that capacity 

we  only get
what we're entitled to 

the going rate
for that capacity

i.e. its market price 

if we call
 that a profitable deal
 for ourselves 
well fine
but we ain't usin'
 the word profit
the same way 
a capitalist would 

 we
 sell ourselves
  to live

the profiteer
 buys uz  to profit 

its simple really  
 
and
 yet the confusion 
about
 this
 persists 

and of course 
its a joyous confusion

 if you happen
to be a profiteer    

cause he can say

" see you too are a capitalist "
 

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and heres where 
this confusion 
can take us:

public purse 
and public  credit
  policy
too often
with the best of intentions 
assumes 
unlikely 
results


 behind many public measures
to aid the wagery of this land 
is the asuumption
that the reward 
for any  upgraded 
goes to the possessor
of that upgraded capacity 

   not necessarily so 

  laboring power
can be enhanced
and
 the benefit 
can and to a large degree will 
end up 
captured by a profiteer 

not the enskilled  laborer



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