Capitalism profits most by leaving parts of the production chain uncommodified

Evidence

Warehouses in Lehigh Valley—and throughout the United States—are representative of increasing American reliance on what anthropologist Anna Tsing terms “supply chain capitalism,” an economic structure that is simultaneously “big”—meaning operating at a global, seemingly totalizing scale—but also reliant on linking heterogeneous industries, exploiting conflicts and differences that emerge from the sheer diversity of methods through which local practices are incorporated into the global economy. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 285 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Even the most highly organized capitalism retains the social need for private appropriation and distribution of profit as the regulator of the economy. That is, it continues to link the realization of the general interest to that of particular vested interests. In doing so, it continues to face the conflict between the growing potential of pacifying the struggle for existence, and the need for intensifying this struggle; between the progressive “abolition of labor” and the need for preserving labor as the source of profit. The conflict perpetuates the inhuman existence of those who form the human base of the social pyramid—the outsiders and the poor, the unemployed and unemployable, the persecuted colored races, the inmates of prisons and mental institutions. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 240 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist profit also depends on unpaid domestic labor — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 106; Capitalist valorization extends beyond monetized labor to the conditions of production themselves — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 743; Capitalism must preserve labor as profit source despite its potential abolition — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 240 (+2 more)

Related

• Supply chain capitalism exploits heterogeneous local practices rather than flattening them (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalist valorization extends beyond monetized labor to the conditions of production themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalist profit also depends on unpaid domestic labor (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism must preserve labor as profit source despite its potential abolition (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism profits most from labor it never commodifies or pays (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism can preserve ‘irrational’ features like unfree labor rather than abolish them (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Supply chain capitalism exploits heterogeneous local practices rather than flattening them #exemplifies (0.90) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 285
• Capitalism must preserve labor as profit source despite its potential abolition #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 240