Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 1:13:46 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Doug and Hans on economics






			Rakesh,



	Skills can't change wage rates unless the country is a
proportionally large net exporter or importer.  The argument that workers
(in the industrial, capitalist world, at least) are poor because they lack
skills is a clear fallacy.  Unless jobs go begging for want of qualified
workers, there is no basis for the argument. 


	The "skills" argument usually camouflages a situation of a decline in
industrial production, which is clearly what creates value.  Likewise, simple
screw-turning on employees to get better productivity is argued to be a
change in the market for "skills".   The rationale for this is a false
assumption about a labor "market."





		peace,



			boddhisatva





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