June 14, 2022
EP 386: Extra Context: Getting Paid
How can we think more strategically about the way we get paid as business owners & independent workers?
Who doesn’t love to get paid? So we’re going to talk about how that actually happens. Not the dollars and cents of getting paid, but the form and structure. In the previous two episodes, we examined our relationships to work—both paid and unpaid. And it got me thinking about how we actually account for the ways paid work, well, pays—and especially how that impacts business owners and independent workers. I’m talking the difference between wages and profit, how surplus labor creates profit, and specifically how I structure my own pay in order to have a better perspective on my work.
Footnotes:
- Surplus Labor in Radical Economics
- Karl Marx via The School of Life
- “The ‘Cult’ of Passive Income” via Tiffany Ferguson
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