Friday, April 13, 2012
Alienated Company Owner?
Are the owners, or heads of companies, as alienated from the product as Marx claims the workers are? Marx suggests that workers become very alienated for their work. The best example of this is that factory workers never may never get a chance to own or even see the product that they have been laboring to create. Similarly a worker is also alienated from his or her nature. This is in part because in most jobs the worker is constantly being told what to create and never has any creative choice. I am curious if the same is true for the owner of a company. Unlike the workers, in general, they do see the profits directly and stand to gain the most from productions of goods. However, in a manner they could also be considered alienated because they do not actually create the product. Of course this alienation may very well be seen as welcomed, however unfair, for many company owners, get the greatest profit from the least amount of physical, or even mental, work.
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