Friday, March 27, 2015

Low Wages Unaffected Bourgeoisies


            Karl Marx made the case that the proletariats (the workers) will one day over through capitalism, which will remove the bourgeoisies (the owners) out of their position. There is a lot of reason made of why the proletariats need to over though capitalism. One of the reasons made is that bourgeoisies get more money than the proletariats, even though the proletariats are the ones who made the product that the bourgeoisies are selling. The bourgeoisies pay the proletariats extremely low wages; wages that came, at times, barley enough to support them to live but ironically not enough to be able to buy the product that they made themselves. Works can leave the company, possible for the owner to realize that he/she is unfair, but if there is a large amount of people wanting the job, or any job, there will be not change the bourgeoisie mind to give better wages, because there are people that are willing to work for enough amount of money. In this case it would be impossible for bourgeoisies to change the wages without them also change the price on the products that are made. There was not there much detail in class of why the proletariats do not come together and over through the bourgeoisies, but is it a possibility that most of the proletariats are not willing to reach for the chance of losing their jobs or going home without money to support themselves. Although there has been changes done for the proletariats in some jobs, such as receiving insurance for life, dental, or car, and some workers get vacation days. Even though they are benefiting the workers, it does not change the fact that they are receive low wages. It may be nice to get a discount on some place, but how can someone say that they makes Iphone while they have a flip phone.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with most of the argument that you are making about why and how the proletariats need to work together to make a change, but I disagree with the thought about the bourgeoisies. I feel that the Bourgeoisies would easily be able to raise the wage of their workers without missing out on making profit on their products. They may make less, but they can handle it.

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