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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Capitalist production
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 13:13:04 EST
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I don't get it. JoSH builds his machine -- fine and good. He hires one
of his neighbours to use it -- fine and good. Assume he hires all the
widget makers in his town. Still fine and good? JoSH decides that
he is onto a good thing, and gets a loan to build a widget factory
with lots of his machiens in it, so that he can make a lot of
widgets. He gets his loan. He hires more people. A lot of widgets
are made, and JoSH and his employees can now undersell and out produce
all the other widget makers. JoSH gets a lot of business. JoSH pays
off his loan and starts making money. JoSH gets rich.

I'm a widget maker from another town. Business gets lousy -- everybody
would rather buy from JoSH because he produces more and cheaper widgets.
I decide that I can either provide some function that JoSH doesn't
have in my widgets (but I can't think of one) or I can retrain to
do something else (but I don't want to do this, or think that I can't)
or I can go and work for JoSH. 

Somewhere JoSH went from being good and fine, to putting me in a
place where i am forced to sell my labour to JoSH. But I don't get
it -- what has JoSH done wrong?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura