Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
There is no logical reason that the United States – with more resources than any society in the history of the human race – can’t sustain a prolonged pause in production. After all, we have stockpiles of food, energy and manufactured goods – even toilet paper – and a robust distribution network. The only critical shortages relate to medical equipment to meet the coronavirus health crisis.
It’s a rational plan, formulated by public health experts, to have as many workers as possible take a time out, without loss of income, stay at home, and slow the spread of the COVID 19 virus. All of those accumulated resources were created collectively by us – the working class. Why shouldn’t we fully access them in time of need?
But for the overwrought Trumps of this world, the truth is every worker who stays home is a worker who no longer generates profits.
Labor creates all wealth. Every product of the economy, every good and service, is produced by the collective labor of workers. But those workers are only paid a small portion of the value they create. The rest goes to profits, bloated executive salaries and bonuses and the like. Irrationality and inhumanity are baked into the capitalist system as a result of this fundamental injustice.
It’s a rational plan, formulated by public health experts, to have as many workers as possible take a time out, without loss of income, stay at home, and slow the spread of the COVID 19 virus. All of those accumulated resources were created collectively by us – the working class. Why shouldn’t we fully access them in time of need?
But for the overwrought Trumps of this world, the truth is every worker who stays home is a worker who no longer generates profits.
Labor creates all wealth. Every product of the economy, every good and service, is produced by the collective labor of workers. But those workers are only paid a small portion of the value they create. The rest goes to profits, bloated executive salaries and bonuses and the like. Irrationality and inhumanity are baked into the capitalist system as a result of this fundamental injustice.
