Andrew Sage

I just, come on.

We gotta have better arguments than this.

Like,

Yeah, if you want to hear bad arguments, you should sit down on the bargaining session where their lawyer goes on kind of incomprehensible tirades about how the free market in the aggregate will make sure that the best person will get promoted over time or that the company will become more profitable or run with the most efficiency as an enterprise because anything else would be illogical because they wouldn't produce more profit.

But what does that have to do with labor?

Yeah, exactly.

Okay, so what I know who's a lawyer once told me that like, this is not like a leftist.

This is just like, she's just like a corporate lawyer once told me that the actual secret basis that doesn't exist of all corporate law is that there is actually nothing in the law that says a company has to make more money.

Or that they even have the right to make money?

That doesn't exist.

That's not a thing.

You don't actually have a legal right to make more money.

You simply don't.

That's not how this works.

The thing it reminds me of is the anthropologist David Graeber wrote about... I think he might have been quoting someone else, but I can't remember who he was quoting.

But he writes about how the relationship between sort of eloquence and violence, where the less you have... And this isn't somewhere in the utopia of rules.

He writes about how...

You know, people who have access to violence to compel people to do something, you don't even have to speak the same language as someone, right?

You can just point a gun at them and, you know, they have to obey you because, you know, they have force, right?

But the less ability you have to actually use force to get someone to do something, right?