Chapter 240 Chapter 237 What Is Exploitation

What is the salary?

Wages refer to the remuneration paid to employees in the form of currency by employers or statutory employers in accordance with legal provisions, industry regulations, or agreements with employees. To put it simply, it is money.

However, this is the definition of salary, but what about the essence of salary? What exactly is measured and what is used as a yardstick to determine the value of a person's work? Do you follow your mood? Write zero with your eyes closed, whatever you write counts. There is still an invisible hand that determines everyone's wages.

After coming to Albion.

Due to poor health and cold, he lay in bed in pain for more than a month. During this more than a month, he was thinking about how to save money so that he could live with food and clothing. Because of poverty, he developed a price sensitivity. Later, Yuri was slapped in the face by the skyrocketing prices due to the war.

He tore up his schedule in anger.

Yuri started to study the salary issue after learning from the pain. He felt that someone was plundering his pocket legally. How is this possible? This is absolutely not allowed! This is simply intolerable for a former factory owner!

After all, he has rich experience and has traveled to various places. Yuri quickly came to the conclusion that everyone is selling their labor to capitalists in order to obtain wages, so wages are the measurement of labor through currency. Then the next question arises. If wages are rising, it means that the value created by one's labor is increasing. So what is the process of using wages to purchase goods?

The big bald man found this question quickly. The answer is that commodities are the transformation of his own labor force, so he has been using his labor force to purchase the products of other people's labor force.

Ideally, it should be a loss-free replacement of labor force.

Well, it is barter in primitive society.

Yuri is thinking wrong. If bartering is reasonable from an objective perspective, it will not be eliminated by the ruler of currency. Therefore, if the ideal situation is not ideal, there must be a problem, but he has not yet systematically discovered and raised this issue.

Then the word residual value popped up.

Then there are costs, profits, means of production, variable capital, constant capital, labor, value, use value, added value, money, primitive accumulation, capital re-accumulation...

This was simply too much, and it couldn’t be done in one night. Yuri, who was filled with thoughts at that time, shook his head and sighed, feeling as if he had discovered a new world in motion. This world is a social relationship and a system. , can be summarized and summarized, even a brand new subject!

Of course, the bald man didn't know that in the lower reaches of history, there were always college students trying to understand the problems that their predecessors had been studying all their lives in one night in order to cope with the exam.

In addition to researching with the students in Albion, working in factories together, and becoming self-reliant together.

Yuri also wrote letters to communicate with his friends.

For example, Joseph in Rowan, the voluntary organizations in Goun, and the soldiers in Hopes are all Yuri's friends. Many of them are inspired by Yuri's thoughts and have more or less broadened their horizons. , realize what is ideal. Although Yuri is not an extraordinary person, and his voice is not prominent, his thinking that is not welcomed by the ruling class is exactly what most people want to embrace.

With the help and opinions of these people, Da Baldy finally completed the first draft, which is what Linn has in hand.

And he also found an answer.

"...The so-called wages are the workers exchanging their own commodities, namely labor, for various other commodities, and they are converted according to a certain ratio. The capitalist pays him two soles in exchange for his days of labor. He was paid a certain amount of meat, a certain amount of clothes, a certain amount of firewood, a certain amount of kerosene, etc. It can be seen that these two sulers represent the exchange value of the commodity through money, which is also called. The price of goods. So wages are just the price of labor.”

"And this labor price is only the worker's commodity, not equivalent products. These products are produced by the capitalist using his own raw materials and labor tools. However, the value of the commodity is determined by the socially necessary labor time. When the commodity is produced In the process of value appreciation, workers are actually just labor tools and do not enjoy a share in the product price.”

“So when the price of commodities changes and the relationship between supply and demand also changes, workers and farmers cannot effectively control the losses of their labor through their own labor, and can only be harvested by an invisible pair of scissors in a disadvantaged position. pocket money, and did not realize that there was a fundamental problem with his labor.”

The bald man's words almost stunned Lin En from beginning to end. It is never easy to explain objective laws.

After listening to this, the young gentleman seemed to understand something but not quite.

"The gold pound itself has no value, and sucrose is not the price of sucrose." Linn murmured thoughtfully, his own economic concept has always been a weakness.

After a few minutes of silence, Linn finally spoke.

"Isn't this exploitation?"

The workers are just replaceable props. The products of labor belong to the capitalists, and the workers cannot enjoy the increase in prices. And when the relationship between supply and demand changes, such as arrears and deductions, through macro-control of the economy, the exploited are forced to take out the last money in their pockets and the last strength in their bodies.

This is why milk would rather be poured into the river than sent out.

"Exploitation, well, this word is used very well. I think I will use it often in my own works." After the big bald man explained to Lin En, he did not look tired at all, but stroked the tabby cat with full energy.

This kitten has been stroked back and forth by Yuri more than a dozen times. It still enjoys turning over and over to enjoy the dexterous hands of the upright ape, licking Yuri's fingers affectionately, revealing its soft belly.

And every time Lin En tried to touch it, it would be scared back by its bared teeth.

Probably because they were not close.

"I also lived on the edge of the downtown for a while. I don't know the problems of workers as clearly as you do, Mr. Yuri, especially the problem of wages." Lin En retracted his hand and smiled. The smile on his handsome face faded a little confusedly, but as the topic was discussed, more confusion was inevitable.

When the social operation of this era was gradually unveiled to himself, there was another obstacle waiting for him.

"I'm very curious. You said you were the son of a businessman, but you became a Beyonder after your family fell into poverty. I also have some Beyonder friends, but they rarely have the same vision as you. Can you tell me where you studied before?"

During the conversation, Yuri found that Lin En's thoughts were very interesting.

Like a broken giant, although there are some shortcomings, you can still glimpse some excellence.

So he became curious about Lin En's educational experience.