- 20 Sep 2021 11:21
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I am sorry, but if this is directed at me I really think you are missunderstanding my point.
I am not saying teachers or nurses dont contribute to the economy (or anything like this) and I am not saying they are setting the political agenda.
I am saying we should spend tax money on them, and that the movement I would want to belong in sets their class interests first in their political agenda.
The people I am adressing that do not contribute to the production BUT have a significant influence on the political agenda are people who work with value document productions, LGBTQ certificates, anti discrimination jobs and so on.
THOSE are the people I want to be kept out of a movement, since THEIR class interests is opposed to the interests of for instance teachers when money we could spend on more teachers and higher wages instead are spent on people who help schools deal with a, largely imagined, structural racism and sexism.
ckaihatsu wrote:This isn't empirically correct.
The government (and the private sector) provide *many* services like nursing, teaching, etc., which have *production costs*, namely *wage labor*, and so are therefore economic *commodities*, just like any *transportation*, utilities, etc.
I don't think that professional nurses and teachers are really *setting the political tone* for the government from their professional positions -- really it's the *other way around*, since their positions are *funded* by government expenditures.
I am sorry, but if this is directed at me I really think you are missunderstanding my point.
I am not saying teachers or nurses dont contribute to the economy (or anything like this) and I am not saying they are setting the political agenda.
I am saying we should spend tax money on them, and that the movement I would want to belong in sets their class interests first in their political agenda.
The people I am adressing that do not contribute to the production BUT have a significant influence on the political agenda are people who work with value document productions, LGBTQ certificates, anti discrimination jobs and so on.
THOSE are the people I want to be kept out of a movement, since THEIR class interests is opposed to the interests of for instance teachers when money we could spend on more teachers and higher wages instead are spent on people who help schools deal with a, largely imagined, structural racism and sexism.