Monday, March 21, 2005

|Blind-sided by myopia.|

Still complaining about my fellow Columbians... they don't get Marx. They don't get Marx because they don't get wage-labour. They don't get wage-labour because they don't get the idea that someone would take a job simply because it pays $1/hr rather than $0.67/hr and not because it's what he wants to do with his life.

More than a few students in class today expresses this shock. I don't doubt that a few of them were near fainting, and this being the one day I forgot to bring my smelling salts. For the rest, to say that the idea that there are people who take a job because they have no other choice (or rather, the only other choice is starvation) was "mind-blowing" would be completely inaccurate. The idea did not even make a dent. At the end of the lecture, there was still one guy contending that it makes no sense why anyone would work a job for any reason other than wanting to, for any reason other than self-fulfillment.

If anyone's mind was blown today, it was mine.


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