House of Paine

uneven exploitation

  
when is a wage 
a  just wage 
and when is it
just a  wage ?

 exploitation  does not show
on the capitalists control panel 

unlike wage and profit rate  equalization 
exploitation rates  equalization
 is not a spontaneous product
 of the  system's  
"self interested monads'"
struggle  dynamics  

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this post is a mess

 but very important even 
if i can't get it 
correctly squared away 

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remember the use value is all the buyer pays for

a barber cuts your hair
you pay him

he can't say oh
and also 
theres an exploitation rate 
sur charge 
on my value added

nope 
that would 
 be like a value added  tax 

only the guy down the street works
 for himself
he's got no surcharge

so i take the exploitation hit 

and afterwards
either i go to work for myself

or i stay 
cause i don't have the cred yet
 to get 
my own customers directly

what ever what ever

the point is simple
the profit has to come out of some where
"inside'
 the exchange value of  the use value 
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in the classic situation most favorable to the profiteers reputation
as cleos innovators

a little something up my  gilder sleeve 

ilike a 
"cost saving method "
 or
a" productivity enhancing "
    machine or technique

or some shit like a 
skill strip
 by lower skill  specialization or or or

whatever

 its a technical innovation

that's whats gonna
 allow me to pay a barber 
as much as he could earn on his own
 
because under my direction
with my tools and system
 he can cut more hair per hour
or 
cut the same amount better
or
 some combo of the two

i can eeck a profit out
between the barbers
 self employment 
 earning power
and
 the  market price 
for a hair cut

take my piece  
without the barber feeling 
the clip 

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heres the problem

  surely
by burger right

one 
would like to equalize exploitation

make it'" level fair"



burger mmorality
compells we 
have a system
that  makes
 the profit rip 

the vap rate 
so to speak

the rate of profit 
out of value added 
or
 the (V)alue (A)dded (P)rofit rate  

equal on a %  basis
across
all wage tasks 

but thats not likely to happen

to say the least

and whats more 
nobody 
on either side
not the profiteer
 or the wageling
gives a shit
about the injustice of it all 

cause no one can usually tell 
if some other dink 
has a lower exploitation rate

 so fucking what

as I like sayin

wage MEASURED AGAINST  wage

thats the prole cat 
yard stick 


say in fact 
some ass holes got himself
the  best case possible

his value added 
equals his wage 

and
 he's exploitation free

so what

shit 
 i'm making more per hour 

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but then who can see exploitation rates ?



in the real mess of the market world around uz
where the various exploitation rates 
of the different wageling jobs 
can't even be determined 
cause they're all jumbled up jointly producing something....


say 
 
 i'm working three hundred souls
doing say
 15 sets of heterogenious tasks
in succession
to produce 
a single type of  product 
  

I'm paying the various wageling types
the prevailing wage for their job

whatever the fuck that is 

and at worsed 

 wage is what they're worth
in value added

thats
by definition

( we won't let em
go beyond that 
to where they're 
some how  worth less 
 in value added then their wage 
and share in the exploitation
of the rest of the work force
because
among other more technical  reasons 
 to go further
in that direction
to actually 
pierce the mirror 
 k
leads only to 
fruitless pardoxes
further 
indeterminations
and futile  confusions 

that way 
folly abound

 
at any rate
other then the exploitation free chap(s)

the rest are where my porfits come from
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now how do i figure my profit per head here?

if i can count a task in units

well i can piece work that task

but how do i cross value the various different tasks?

except by working back from the prevailing wage 
that task commands on the market

in the short run
the system is circular

and i can't know from whence my profit
specifically comes 

if i'm mr clark
i'll try acting like a function and vary each input while holding the others constant
and see the change in out put
more a types less z types
etc get juggled around till i've got my cost min combo 

this is non sense

in fact i hack away at the most expensive wage types
brake up their tasks into simpler skill sets 
maybe i have to change scale produce out of a bigger production set up to get there

the point is i'm not trying to equalize exploitation at each task
 but maximize it 
in  its totality 


there   is no

" just " set of wage rates
that means a damn thing



at least
not 
 in the sense of
 an equal exploitation
  set of wage rates

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imagine the work force of mine

all went into business as proprietors

at each stage of production i like a lucretian demon
bought the ouput of each
and sold it to the proprietor 
working the  next stage 

could i be sure to produce 
 an even rate of margin on each re- sale ?

would i try?

no 

especially 
not if i had  demon competitors
criss crossing these same production lines 

then each wageling type would collect a rent
essentially an exogenous revenue stream
based on
the relevant array
of  entry and opportunity  costs 

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as far as the systems dynamics
any profiteers
ingenious 
 above wage rate 
value added 
rate
 would remain
as
un reducible to equalization
as unequally fertile pieces of land
which is no different
of course
 then the nimble piece workers
 higher  then average hourly
  compensation 
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as long as  tasks
are  balled up together
 extricably

each single  task
 just linked into
 a lot of other tasks
 provided by
 other types of wagelingers 


how the fuck can 
i really know
 the mrginal
value of each task's 
least productive hour ?

hence the rule of profiteering

is  rough and ready

 pay what little i can
for what ever  work i have to buy
to get the product
made the cheapest way possible 

           that increases  my profit 

even as it may further 
unequalize my various exploitation rates 

 the sole  rule of thumb

cut  it  where you can cut it 

and why not

a dollar saved 
no matter where
is a dollar earned


the progressive picture
of technical progress 
propelled along
by technical
simplification
 and 
mechanization
and the consequent
 reduction
 in  total work hours
contained


 falls to the bottomline 
 no matter where the time is saved
or the skill intensity reduced

a profit  dollar is  a  profit dollar 
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ok so maybe
if theres a huge wage rate variation
in side my  work force
 i 'll  try   
harder (whatever that means)
to reduce
the high  cost wagery tasks 
cause 
i get more profit buck 
for the bang 
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 conclusions:

cost min on all fronts 
holds

 and 
some wage types
 may add only
 as much value 
 as they cost 

and no one cares
one way or the other  

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