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Originally Posted by PeterCrackhead
Actually, Marx is correct. I guess economic history isn’t your bag he is refuting Thomas Robert Malthus’ conception of what minimum wage is for wage labor. Malthus a minister in the Church of England created the Malthus Trap where as food production and wages grew so did population thus creating an equilibrium between growth of the population and the levels food production that maintain poverty. This of course as you would agree with conclusion was created by God to maintain stability in the population and teach people to live a virtuous life.
Marx, denied that claim and instead argued that Malthus’ trap was instead a function of wage labor exploitation in the capitalist economy. Furthermore it also benefited the capitalist to keep is his/her employees at this subsistence living level so they couldn’t afford to step out of line. People just barely holding on to an existence tend to not for Fight their oppressors.
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Yes, Malthus was a minister. But neither Malthus nor Marx were quoting the Bible. You are wasting our expensive space here by telling tales from non Biblical sources.
Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.