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I don’t really like Ceika’s explanation of unproductive labor. He makes it sound like you can just directly produce a good or service and exchange in exchange for money and since there isn’t an actual distinct capitalist therefore it’s not capital?? Self-employed people can still do productive labor
Sure, the labor being performed isn’t productive *for the consumer*, but that’s irrelevant. He’s trying to ontologize the labor as such rather than treating it like a social relation.
He criticizes others for their moralism in the video, (which yes, absolutely good to call out) but then lapses into it himself by painting unproductive labor as virtuous and then claiming the label for himself cheekily at the end.
Also it’s rly curious that the abundance of quotes suddenly dries up when he gets to explaining the specifics of unproductive labor 🧐 hmmm we will never know the reason
To be more clear I should have said “not valorizing” instead of “not capital” - the “it” was a little ambiguous