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If a worker in the U.S. can work the same job and then move to Kenya and live a life of luxury, then very clearly these workers are getting fucked for the global value of their labor
You are absolutely right. From grocery prices to cell phone plans, American consumers are being price gouged and the rent is too damn high.
Workers within the imperial core are given consumption privileges not afforded to the workers of other nations for the same work
What even is this statement? You think these office workers leave their climate controlled data farm and go home to their unelectrified, dirt floor hovel and in Kenya no iphone? You need to check your assumptions. Kenyan workers are just as shrewd as workers in the west and a growing middle class demands the same treats they see portrayed in American cultural exports.
Honestly try to explain to a middle class Kenyan that they are super exploited unless they are living like kings making the same wage as a worker in the US. They’re more likely to subscribe to a “rise and grind” attitude than to leftist theory, just like their American counterparts. But go ahead and subscribe to your utopian socialism where entire nations of laborers join hands in international solidarity, capital forgoes the benefits of global labor arbitrage, and the army of surplus labor refuses to scab. Please! Beg these Kenyans to give up their strips of fat from the table for the sake of unemployed American workers now eating shit from the heels. See how it goes.
It’s not even that the rent is too damn high. It’s that the rent is completely arbitrary.
I never said that, what I said was that they cannot travel outside of their particular market in order to experience a fraction of the luxury. Even an unemployed American worker makes more than they do simply through benefits. They think themselves schrewd but they are deluding themselves as much as anyone. If anything, the trend is towards American workers making the same as Kenyan workers but getting the same benefits (iphone and air conditioning included), with the separation of global wealth reaching unfathomable heights.
Man, talk about ungenerous. I never said that that is what is going to happen, I never said that ‘these workers are going to join hands and overthrow their oppressors’. The century of dreams is well over. All I am saying is claiming that they are ‘doing well’ and are ‘unexploited’ is deliberately obfuscating the wealth transfer, and you don’t have to make that theoretical arguement when some neo-liberal Steven Pinkerton fuck will.
