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I kinda disagree with this. There's too many of us in India. We are replaceable wage-slaves - since we are "resources" in high supply, our demand is less. And therefore, capitalists have a justification to pay us shit wages, because "it's the free market". Maybe if some of us were aborted, we'd have had an assurance to quality life, if not economic growth and technology transfer.
That's still a capitalism problem. 10 people working produces more than 10x the wealth of 1 person's labor. It's capitalism that causes the uneven distribution of that greater wealth.
I wanna argue the 10x bit: specialization and organization is a force multiplier in terms of production.
Correct
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
I don't know, you tell me...
There is not too many of us in India. India is an urbanizing society, meaning that there is a large amount of migration from rural areas to urban areas, leaving urban areas with a surplus population and driving down urban wages. This is a process that all capitalist countries went through at some point in their lifespans, including England, whose example Marx analyses 200 years ago. Back when its population was on the order of 10 million (it is over 80 million today).
By providing full employment, the communist countries were able to industrialize very rapidly while maintaining decent wages. It is a capitalism problem.
Fail enough, I would say. Job migration in a culturally sensitive place like India has been disastrous, and often at times, the tribal folks are at the receiving end of this - like I see in places like Jharkhand and Odisha. I understand that wage theft and stagnation is very real, as I've seen scummy CHWTIA companies practice this proactively - but I was talking with respect to unemployment here. But from what I believe, doesn't this idea fail against meritocracy and job specialization. Or is my suffering-reductionist view a convenient narrative for proletariat to self-gaslight themselves, and a nice fodder for right-wing eugenics narrative?