The workers' wages of today are not a question of the value that their work produces but a question of the point of balance between the mental and physical power of a trade union and an employers' association
1321. Thousands of workers slave in factories or other kinds of companies for a daily or hourly sum that does not come close to representing the value that the person in question produces per day or per hour, but constitutes merely the point of balance or equilibrium between a mental and physical trial of strength or capacity for force of a "trade union" and an "employers' association". That this trial of strength will come to grief for the less "well-armed" party is of course inevitable. The less "well-armed" of these two sides or opponents in the struggle is the one that can least afford to fight and must therefore be the first to give up and submit to the other. The one that can least afford to fight is as a rule the worker. He is of course sometimes so badly off that merely a few days stoppage of work creates hunger, hardship and tears in his home, for his wife, his children and others he may be responsible for or has to support. It is of course inevitable that the other party – who has accumulated assets and sufficient capital that allow his relatives, despite the fight, despite the shutdown at his company, to live in wastefulness and luxury for months and years – is in the best position. And thus the "false business principle" became a camouflage for pure "slavery", quite apart from the open and direct "slavery" that once existed and therefore also constitutes a black page in the annals of terrestrial mankind.
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