Shower thoughts: one strange thing leftists do is point out that it is the logic of capitalism that depresses wages, not rival labor. This strikes me as half true. Indubitably, the profit motive, capital’s relentless drive for its self-valorization is the *distal* cause.
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But causality is a complicated thing, and I don’t see how there is any ‘getting around’ the fact that competing labor is still a *proximate* cause of the proverbial race to the bottom.
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“You’re just falling back on a crude, capitalist ‘realism’, Evan. These supervening phenomena will evanesce once we change the underlying structure” is the usual refrain. Well, so fucking what?
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Are YOU close to changing the system? No, you aren’t. Can you point me to a place that isn’t under its dominion (and that isn’t in the bowels of the Amazon)? No, you can’t.
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As such, it is ridiculous to dismiss people’s concerns out of hand because in your scheme (which isn’t close to being realized), wage labor will be abolished. Like it or not, this is the game we are forced to play, and if it is going to change, that's going to take a long time.
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As counter-intuitive as it seems, people can behave rationally within an irrational system, especially when said system is so intractable and has proven so durable. To warp Adorno, "the rules may not arise from rational reflection, but a certain rationality arises from the rules"
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In fact, unless you have a plan with an immediate, reasonable chance of success, then you’re the one who arguably being irrational. It depends on which ‘causal angle’ you approach the issue from.
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Seriously, it's obnoxious how often lefties will just resort to the 'these things won't be a problem when we abolish capitalism' response, especially when the majority of them aren't seriously committed to changing anything.
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That was Nietzsche's point to genealogical historiography as well, that various socio-political functions and institutional norms start from a less than rational basis but gain legitimacy over timed because reason "slowly permeates" in them.
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