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Was firing an over-reaction?Was firing an over-reaction?Posted Mar 27, 2013 15:35 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Was firing an over-reaction? by nix Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
I'd say that Marx also overlooked the explosive economic growth that allowed for quite a bit of time for wages to rise in real value.
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Was firing an over-reaction? Posted Mar 28, 2013 0:01 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
No, he expected that -- he was writing a short time after the Industrial Revolution had truly gathered steam. Economic growth wouldn't slow the processes he identified -- it would accelerate them, as they're driven by competition. But of course he didn't foresee the labour movement or the modern welfare state, which has pretty much eliminated the race to the bottom he foresaw. (Other things might well have eliminated it too.)
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