Jerry wrote in [3830]:
>I may
>have left the impression in [OPE-L:3829] that I view *all* labour employed
>in health care as unproductive labour. To clarify (and in anticipation of
>possible objections), I do believe this to be the case. Where labour is
>employed by profit-making health care corporations (i.e. capitalist
>firms), some proportion of the total labour employed should then be
>counted as productive [of surplus value] labour. As would be the case in
>other capitalist firms, unproductive labour would also be employed.
>
Still, I think, those are unproductive in principle, and yet productive for
individual capitalists, like the commercial laborers.
In solidarity, Chai-on