Talk:Wage labour

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Facts of US Patent Law

I am not sure what changes may have taken place in recent decades, and I've no doubt there are cases where a patent can only be logically assigned to a group and therefore is directly assigned to a corporation or one of its' officers. However ... . Will research it and post here on a slow queue. Lycurgus (talk) 00:32, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

wage labour from Marxist pov

"It can be persuasively argued," noted one concerned philosopher, "that the conception of the worker's labour as a commodity confirms Marx's stigmatization of the wage system of private capitalism as 'wage-slavery;' that is, as an instrument of the capitalist's for reducing the worker's condition to that of a slave, if not below it."

This is...really bad. No it can't be 'persuasively argued' and the phrase 'Marx's stigmatization of the wage system of private capitalism' sounds odd. Wage labour is OBVIOUSLY a step up from slavery, serfdom and you can find several references that can support that claim (even in Marx's writings he makes this point clear -- criticisms of capitalism aside, it is a mode that is more free and advanced than feudalism, slavery, etc.