Is the Worker a Commodity?

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"The worker has become a commodity," he says. "If they don't do their part, they can be fired, and they can starve" The products themselves have a kind of power over liets - it's not only that the product doesn't belong to them but that it's actually something that's hostile. But however much the worker is aware of it or not, they are still alienated.

In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.