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by randomdata
658 days ago
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> you can't work 80 hours a day. But you can work for more than one person. Professional athletes and move stars in particular seem to have that figured out quite well, working for many millions, if not billions, of people when they work in a professional capacity. Labour scales quite nicely when doing work that a lot of people want to have done. Often better than capital, even! The stadium can only hold so many people. He who owns the capital often has less ability to scale than the worker. |
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You can't scale the labor of being on an assembly line, or the labor of being a lawyer or a doctor or a farmer or an auto mechanic. (You may be able to replace them with software, but that's not the same thing.)
(And, yes, you can "scale" them in a way by giving them better tools. A farmer today with a combine is easily 100x a farmer 150 years ago with a sickle - probably more like 1000x. There's not another factor of 10 available to scale them up right now, though, no matter how hard they try.)