what do u think “fruits” mean in this context
2007-03-22 15:42:01 · 5 answers · asked by darkliquid_dreams 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Money is certainly a valid answer, but it could also be said that the middle-class worker is separated from the outcomes of his labor. For instance, a man who works on the assembly line at an automobile factory will never drive the cars he builds (not all of them, you see), and no one knows he helps to build them, so he gets no notoriety as a car-builder, as a blacksmith might have done 150 years ago.
I work in a massive corporate headquarters of a multi-billion dollar company, and while my work is important it is invisible to those people who purchase the goods that my company sells. LOL, even me calling it *my* company is a misnomer, as it is a privately held venture, currently owned by an investment firm.
Think about it. One hundred years ago, a very talented seamstress would profit not only in gold for her work, but others would know and come to her. Now the work of making clothes, furniture, dishes, almost everything... is farmed out to impersonal factories where the customer never sees who made it for them. As such, craftsmen have become merely assembly line workers.
2007-03-22 15:59:29 · answer #1 · answered by Belinda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marx was talking about the product. Workers often didn't even know what they were making at the large conveyor belt.
2007-03-22 23:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by Olgilvy 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The money. The products he built. The cash. The profit.
Get my drift?
2007-03-22 22:44:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
benefits
2007-03-22 22:50:03 · answer #4 · answered by brendashubby35 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
gay people, i dont know
2007-03-22 22:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by who me? 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋