The People's Line

The People's Line

No, you should probably tip

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Carl Beijer
Jan 03, 2015
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For some time, I have been under the impression that our economy is defined by bourgeois control of the means of production. This was Karl Marx’s essential insight, and it goes a long way towards explaining the injustices endemic to our capitalist economy.

So I was surprised to learn in Jacobin that it is actually something about tipping that’s responsib…

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