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    1. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @ladyattis

      There are fairly few places where individual workers have the opportunity to seek rents; plausibly something like occupational licensing, maybe.

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @ladyattis

      Ricardo did draw a distinction between deliberate rent seeking and wages being propped up at an inflated level by the "customs and habits" of a given country Like the reason English workers didn't live in mud huts and eat only gruel is England generally thinks that's improper

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @ladyattis

      To the extent that's true, globalization is a direct attack on it - our "customs and habits" (and the minimum wage laws passed to reflect them) get our jobs shipped overseas to a sweatshop in Bangladesh The labor movement is about recognizing "customs and habits" are fought for

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @ladyattis

      Anyway this is why I don't feel like trying to argue that if it's justified it's not really rent seeking because rent seeking is bad You should be letting go of the idea of an "efficient market price" in the first place, it's a dangerous fiction

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    5. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis

      Yeah, that's pretty persuasive.

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    6. Lady Attis ⚦‏ @ladyattis 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      I don’t see it as such. He hasn’t demonstrated labor recovering the full value of its labor is the same as rent seeking.

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ladyattis @mssilverstein

      Whether or not the objective value of a good or service exists, it cannot be detected empirically by some kind of scientific Marxist value-o-meter The job of a union isn't to try to get paid the "correct" wage, it's to get paid as much as they can

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis @mssilverstein

      It is NOT the union's job to say "Nope, we're getting paid too much money now, this is more than our labor is objectively worth, time to give some back to the customer because now they're the ones getting screwed" It's not their fucking problem

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    9. Darcy Burner‏Verified account @DarcyBurner 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis @mssilverstein

      Good unions try to make sure their demands won’t put their employers out of business. It’s counterproductive for everyone if that happens. So strategically, it IS in the interests of a union to set the terms of employment at a level where customers will buy & employers survive.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @DarcyBurner @ladyattis @mssilverstein

      Sure, but that's a different calculation, a pragmatic one not a moral one

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @DarcyBurner and

      And it's considered dangerous for union leadership to start seeing things too much from the POV of management, management capture of unions is a perennial danger because of this

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        1. Lady Attis ⚦‏ @ladyattis 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @DarcyBurner @mssilverstein

          Business unionism is bad m’kay

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @DarcyBurner and

          I mean, cf. the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, where a nominally leftist state went through this process wholesale Turning into a Dengist plutocratic hellhole because "When the country prospers the working class prospers"

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        1. Darcy Burner‏Verified account @DarcyBurner 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ladyattis @mssilverstein

          I think that unions making strategic moves to improve their members’ lives is a good thing. See, e.g. David Rolf of SEIU and the fight for $15. Being strategic about the whole ecosystem can lead to much bigger wins than a smaller, narrower view.

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