For all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.
Hum… I’ve jumped over that part on your comment. And yeah, freedom for laborers was indeed a defining feature of capitalism. I’m not sure that puts the OP fighting against that system in a good light.
Anyway, comoditized labor is nearly dead, and the 20th century created that entire labor market oligopsony thing. “You’ll never work on this city again!” was something so feared that it entered plenty of movies. Work today just does not work by the same rules as it did at the 19th century.
Hum… So, capitalism is what? 5000 years old?
I specifically made a mention to free markets, and to workers selling their labor as a commodity, in my comment.
So… About 5000 years? (I guess more, I don’t know much about Ancient history.)
For all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.
Hum… I’ve jumped over that part on your comment. And yeah, freedom for laborers was indeed a defining feature of capitalism. I’m not sure that puts the OP fighting against that system in a good light.
Anyway, comoditized labor is nearly dead, and the 20th century created that entire labor market oligopsony thing. “You’ll never work on this city again!” was something so feared that it entered plenty of movies. Work today just does not work by the same rules as it did at the 19th century.