Wages and jobs
Sir,—l endorse Steve Cowan’s preference (September 18) for an economy run for people rather than profits, but we will never have such an economy under capitalism and, indeed, none has yet existed under it No matter what politicians or company frontmen say about jobs being important, no matter how loud the caring professions cry about unemployment and deprivation leading to suicide, mental social breakdown, etc..
the fact is that if employers cannot extract profit from their workers, they will not employ them. Employers will never submit to a permanent restriction on the amount of profit they can take. It is against their interests to do so. The only solution to the present crisis is a system of free access to the needs of life which are produced voluntarily by and for the whole community. It is something which is long overdue. — Yours, etc., TED HICKS. September 18, 1989.
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