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Question 555: What is wrong with the argument that the economic self-interest of the capitalists themselves will see to it that they treat their workers well?

[563-15] Franky: The main problem with the argument that the economic self interest of the capitalists themselves will see to it that they treat their workers well is the aspect of capitalism in which the producer tries to gain every bit of excess labor he or she can form the worker. Surplus labor is a situation where the capitalist ignore the physiological and psychological barriers of the worker by working them as long as possible in order to gain surplus labor.

There are strategies that capitalists use to get excess labor from workers in which the workers are treated well. The capitalist will use incentives such as ordering pizza, or a casual dress day. They may also use incentives like 401 k or bonuses for performance. However all of these incentives are merely tokens to trick the worker into working harder so that the capitalist can extract excess labor from the worker.

So, the capitalist will treat the worker well for which is good for their self interest. However in the big picture, the capitalist is just trying to work the worker for as much as he or she can and as Annotations writes, “its blind unrestrainable compulsion, its were-wolf hunger for surplus labor, capital not only oversteps moral, but even the physical maximum bounds of the working day.”

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