11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
7:48 p.m.
According to this blog,
https://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/1445/ James O'Connor has
an interesting thought here:
Consider the labor of the ticket seller at a movie house. The seller’s task
is merely to transfer the right to sit in the theater to the movie-goer in
exchange for the price of a ticket. But it may not be immediately obvious
that it is not the lack of a ticket that keeps you out of the theater … The
ticket is actually torn up and discarded by a husky young man who stands
between the box office and the seat that I want.
These guards are a central feature of capitalism. Capitalists depend upon
guard labor to protect their commodities, including the goods and premises
they own, but especially the labor-power in their employ. Capitalism’s
reliance on guard labor deforms the entire productive process, not only
wasting labor, but also snuffing out badly needed creativity.