Kolibri

@[email protected] I hope it's okay to ping you? I just wanted to say like, this part in section 4 really reminded me a lot of what you said last week about like, underemployment

The third category of the relative surplus population, the stagnant, forms a part of the active labour army, but with extremely irregular employment. Hence it furnishes to capital an inexhaustible reservoir of disposable labour power. Its conditions of life sink below the average normal level of the working class; this makes it at once the broad basis of special branches of capitalist exploitation. It is characterised by maximum of working-time, and minimum of wages. We have learnt to know its chief form under the rubric of “domestic industry.” It recruits itself constantly from the supernumerary forces of modern industry and agriculture, and specially from those decaying branches of industry where handicraft is yielding to manufacture, manufacture to machinery.

I'm assuming section 4 also included? Also this sounds extremely familiar to today time. Mainly with employers talking about how "no one wants to work anymore"

The contradiction is not more glaring than that other one that there is a complaint of the want of hands, while at the same time many thousands are out of work, because the division of labour chains them to a particular branch of industry

earthshine is such a fun thing to say

I'm feeling a lot better today and its nice and warm outside and its nice getting that sun

yes, minus the anticommunist themes in it

I finished system shock 2 and it was pretty fun. Now I really want to try the system shock 1 remake one day. I dunno why but im in like a really energetic better mood today unlike yesterday

That makes a lot of sense, esp. with the part on under employment. Since like you said, that is a really big problem.

They should have shown to have done stuff, like actually helping people or like doing things in the past that helped communities. Instead of just useless talk.