re: #537 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

If you look on labor as just another commodity, like energy, transportation costs, paper clips, toner, etc., then that argument is entirely valid.

And that is the Free market view of things.

If you believe that labor has a human component, the oft-vaunted “dignity of work”, then you have to allow people who work full-time to be able to live and provide for their families, and perhaps even be able to help educate them and train them to move up in the economic and social ladder.

The right-wing have an irrational hate on for low-wage workers, part of their desperate desire to have “others” to look down on and feel smugly superior to.

They have this crazy notion that labor is entirely a business expense, like paper clips, and that workers are not also consumers.