re: #196 KGxvi

It sounds a lot like the “dignity of work” stuff you often (but not always) hear from people who have never worked a menial job in their lives. I’m always skeptical of people I hear talk like that

We are looking at two concepts that overlap but do not fully equate: labor as a commercial commodity and work as a positive social ethos and value. The GOP seems to prefer the former while preaching the latter.

The “dignity of work”, however, lies in giving the worker a chance to better their life and help their children to get a better education and have a better future. It also means in investing education, safety and health care to maintain a healthy and prospering work force (and one with an income to spend to boost the domestic economy)

But Free Market capitalism is about treating workers as just another cost factor to be minimized or eliminated.