>>1111436>how do you survive on so little?Well M – C …P… C' — M' ……… also contains the sub-circuit lp — M — C …P… lp . Where the conversion function of actual living labour to labour power is below destructive rates, and the social price of labour is above its immediate and absolute reproduction.
I compulsively save, live "interestingly," eat discounted loaves of bread.
All my divorces have been financially in my favour relatively speaking (I'm male, I don't pay nobody shit). My girlfriend pays for dates. I brew my own beer. I do nothing but work, fuck and sleep.
>my…apprenticeYou might want to read Hammond & Hammond's Skilled Labourer, or basically any labour history on skill regulation of labour markets by labour and the attendant increases in the price of that regulated labour. ie: Unions won your apprentice his rate.
In terms of bicycle courierage, I'm making a mint.
Just comparing like to like (price per hour exerted adjusted for benefits) against my post-graduate qualified avocation:
Riding a bicycle, 36 hours of exertion a week (72 attended), adjusted for paying own benefits:
USD $44 500
Post-graduate research qualified industry (72 hours exertion required a week, only half paid, has benefits):
USD $38 200
