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dfee on Sept 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Observations on Credit and Lending Practices in Ur...

Sounds terrible: get the money then do the work?

These days we work, THEN get the money.

Maybe capital has gotten smarter about when to pay labor - only after the fact.

runeofdoom on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

Has capital gotten smarter, or labor gotten dumber? I'm sure all the people The World's Richest Man, Elon Musk, is currently refusing to pay what he owes them would rather have gotten their money in advance.

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