we do not however propose that the industrial wage workers themselves should increase their consumption,
but allot this function to two great utterly non productive sectors of society
on the one side
the rentiers retainers jurists security aparatchiks sinecurists etc
on the other side the criminals prisoners pan handlers grifters and other lumpen elements
why ? why not incentize wage labors efforts by greater reward ??
well
if the urge for greater expenditure and the ability to satisfy it fully
thru ever less job hours gets united too often in the same direct producing hu-unit
the two processes would doubtless play tricks on each other
and in the long run render the system of exploitation evermore ineffective
as it sank under a surfeited of short hour jobsters
oh "the numberless untapped hours " that would yield
now run that up against this
with the introduction of additional labor saving new machinery
(or what amounts to the same labor saving indirectly with the introduction
of materials saving new machinary )
a mass of formerly employed workers
can be thrown out of employment
ie
a section of the productive population can be rendered redundant;
result ideally :
additional surplus product in the form of wage goods
finds freshly released labour for which it can be exchanged
and without any increase in population
or any need to extend the absolute working-time
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so ?
well obviously
to the extent the system goes the new labor saving machines route
it intensifies its contradictions even as it performs its essential historic "mission"
ie it constantly challenges itself to expand effective demand by venturing
whereas the spear barers thives and retainers route expands or at least sustains effective demand
even without "venturing investment "
ie this path only protracts the historic interval of bourgeois domination
