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Josep-Ignasi Saranyana, Professor Emeritus of Theology

Frozen eggs

Sun, 09 Nov 2014 10:47:00 +0000 Published in La Vanguardia

When Karl Marx formulated his principle of surplus value, he had only liberal capitalism in sight. liberal capitalism in his sights. He could not, therefore, imagine the efforts and pirouettes of neo-liberal capitalism to keep and pirouettes of neoliberal capitalism to continue to prove him right. If a century and a century and a half ago it seemed obvious that capital always gains more (produces surplus value) even when surplus value) even when the work receives the congruent gratification, this principle principle began to falter at the beginning of the 21st century, if not before. Y to keep it operative, neo-liberal capitalism has devised mechanisms that are mechanisms.

How can we earn more if we can no longer earn more? The neoliberal imagination has has come up with a colorful idea, suggesting that working women should not conceive during their not to conceive during their fertile life, but to wait until later, proposing to freeze their eggs and keep them at their disposal. And all this, under the pretext of making better use of female talent! In other cases, the woman who became pregnant was simply fired, as in a Madrid city council. Madrid city council. And this is not the first incident of this kind subject in Spain.

The headlines in the press are impressive: "Facebook and Apple pay female employees to employees to freeze eggs"; and not just freeze, but also a substantial monthly bonus and thousands of dollars in a substantial monthly bonus and thousands of dollars to cover the costs of the the costs of subsequent treatment (meaning artificial fertilization treatment). artificial fertilization treatment). The child, an object, and the woman, manipulated.

Lhe business is also a unit of coexistence, of staff realization. As Nuria Chinchilla said, it seems that "the work is thought of as an island in the ocean, as if there were nothing else in the world". thought of as an island in the ocean, as if there were nothing else in the world but benefits. in the world other than profits".

The proposals of the two U.S. companies have come to light, because earnings have fallen slightly. profits have fallen slightly. The controversial performance in Madrid, because the municipal elections are municipal elections are looming. In both cases, fundamental principles are forgotten that capital is not entitled to unlimited profit; that the business is also and above all a unit of coexistence, of staff realization and satisfaction for all (employers and workers); and that the product and the and workers); and that the product and efficiency are not an end in themselves, not even the mere accumulation of capital, but are at the service of man. man. Otherwise, selfishness and greed rise to the cube and a country of corrupt old mena country of corrupt old men ensues in a plis-plas.