Economy, life, and caring
“This life activity they sell to other people in order to secure the necessary means of life. [Wage-workers] work that they may keep alive. They do not count the labour itself as a part of their life; it is rather a sacrifice of their life... “What they produce for themselves is not the silk that they weave, not the gold that they draw up the mining shaft, not the palace that they build. What they produce for themselves is wages... “Life for them begins where this activity ceases, at the table, at the tavern, in bed”. So wrote Marx, in Wage Labour and Capital . Since about 2000 bosses have...