Standardizing wages removes the third party’s exploitative advantage

Evidence

But, if the terms imply that it is an advantage to be more intelligent or more skilled in debate, or to have more financial resources, more physical strength, more military potency, or more ability to withstand losses, then the term does a disservice. These qualities are by no means universal advantages in bargaining situations; they often have a contrary value. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 61 (#complicates, via linked claim)

A conflict of interest enters our problem if the parachutists dislike walking. With communication, which is not allowed in our problem, they would have argued or bargained over where to meet, each favoring a spot close to himself or a resting place particularly to his liking. In the absence of communication, their overriding interest is to concert ideas; and if a particular spot commands attention as the “obvious” place to meet, the winner of the bargain is simply the one who happens to be closer to it. Even if the one who is farthest from the focal point knows that he is, he cannot withhold his acquiescence and argue for a fairer division of the walking; the “proposal” for the bargain that is provided by the map itself—if, in fact, it provides one—is the only extant offer; and without communication, there is no counterproposal that can be made. The conflict gets reconciled—or perhaps we should say ignored—as a by-product of the dominant need for coordination. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 150 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Marx however insisted, not merely that men live their relations to their real conditions of existence “in ideology,” but that, in the capitalist mode of production, they will “think” those conditions, in general, within the limits of a dominant ideology; and that, generally, this will tend to be the ideology of the dominant classes . The fact that the proletariat “lives” the collective socialization of labor, under capitalism, through the fragmenting form of the market , and thinks this condition of its material life within the discourses which organize market practices ideologically (or that, under capitalism the proletariat “lives” the expropriation of surplus value in the “ideological form” of wages —a form giving rise to its own ideological discourses: wage bargaining, economism, what Lenin called “trade-union consciousness,” “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” etc.) is not, for Marx, simply a descriptive feature of capitalism. These ideological inflections perform a pivotal role in the maintenance of capitalist relations and in their continuing domination within the social formation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Superior resources and skill can actually disadvantage a bargainer — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 61; Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903; Tacit bargaining forces one party to accept an unfair focal point — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 150 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Superior resources and skill can actually disadvantage a bargainer #complicates (0.80) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 61
• Tacit bargaining forces one party to accept an unfair focal point #responds-to (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 150
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903