Re: hamburgers & jobs

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry about bringing in the issue of whether TV is good or not.

the seeds are goods, but if they're rented, it's a service. This is
exactly like getting the services of a good (an apartment) by renting
it.

A "pure" service would be one that can't be stock-piled (like a
hair-cut) because it's not tangible. The "good" that's being "rented"
to get a service is labor-power. The service is labor.

On 4/18/06, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did not mean that the distinction is moral.  Only that it is difficult to separate
> services & goods in many cases. Monsanto "rents" seeds; it does not sell them,
> because they don't want the farmer to own the seeds.  Are they supplying a service?

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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles