Re: Job flight

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Inputs and outputs, though.  I certainly wouldn't want
> to live in a precapitalist economy or in most forms of
> Actually Existing Socialism, but one argument that I
> always think ought to get more traction is that
> capitalism has singularly failed to shorten the working
> day.

I'm with you on that. But if there's more money to be made out of a
longer workday, the stinking capitalists will lengthen the workday.
And bend many of our minds around to thinking of it as normal. Even a
petit bourgeois radical such as myself didn't leave the office until
9:30 last night.

Doug