You: "Workers and owners don't have opposing interests, we're one big family, management knows best and we have to be productive to succeed in life" Your boss: "I'm glad that not too many peasants will die because otherwise I'd have to pay them more, amirite fellow capitalists?"

Before this gets shared too widely I should probably point out that FT is wrong to assume the dynamics that applied under feudalism apply to capitalism as well. Under the artificial scarcity of capitalism workers' bargaining power has no relation to population density

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@JDespland "thankfully"

@SimplyRagny the part to be thankful about is not the lower mortality rate, it's the fact that the lower mortality rate will keep wages down

@JDespland @Hbomberguy This need to be fake, what kind of alien being write that?!

@JarkoMalone @Hbomberguy a bourgeois

@JDespland From the editorial board! I'm honestly impressed with their naked commitment to keeping workers oppressed

@JDespland Thankfully!

@JDespland Ô______Ô

@JDespland That is one heck of a weird take they took from it

@JDespland i spat out my drink

@JDespland @SeanRMoorhead Missing the last sentence in the paragraph.

@JDespland Besides the absurdity of the „thankfully „, the current corona crisis is accentuating the exploitation of low income labour, as the case of the asparagus seasonal workers from Romania, Bulgaria, or Poland in Germany show

@JDespland @Arr Thankfully lololol

@JDespland @leducviolet They do realize that even with the death rates of coronavirus, wages will need to increase if spending is to recover?

@JDespland Today I learnt from the FT that the different feudal relations that existed in Europe were really just capitalism with a different name.

@JDespland Good of them to just lay it out there.