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8/6/2025, 7:45:37 PM
>>512384065
The workers of a company produce a certain amount of value. In any successful venture, that value exceeds the value put in (cost of materials, equipment, and labor power), ideally including opportunity cost. That’s profit. That’s not theft.
This is where the theft happens:
The owner then decides what to do with that surplus value. The owner unilaterally decides that they would like to give themselves the money. Then they purchase a new yacht and a few dozen single family homes.
Notice how the owner doesn’t do any work (in their role as owner, at least) yet has full control over fruits of the workers’ labor. Why does the owner enjoy such power? Why doesn’t every worker start their own company, or work for themselves? Because the owning class has capital, and you do not.
This would not be theft:
The employees democratically decide to reinvest the money, pay it out to employees, or hold it for the future.
>>512384900
>Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared. It is their real price; money is their nominal price only.
I’m not going to sit here and spoonfeed you things that you would already know if you’d ever taken any amount of time to learn about economics. Or just used google.
The workers of a company produce a certain amount of value. In any successful venture, that value exceeds the value put in (cost of materials, equipment, and labor power), ideally including opportunity cost. That’s profit. That’s not theft.
This is where the theft happens:
The owner then decides what to do with that surplus value. The owner unilaterally decides that they would like to give themselves the money. Then they purchase a new yacht and a few dozen single family homes.
Notice how the owner doesn’t do any work (in their role as owner, at least) yet has full control over fruits of the workers’ labor. Why does the owner enjoy such power? Why doesn’t every worker start their own company, or work for themselves? Because the owning class has capital, and you do not.
This would not be theft:
The employees democratically decide to reinvest the money, pay it out to employees, or hold it for the future.
>>512384900
>Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared. It is their real price; money is their nominal price only.
I’m not going to sit here and spoonfeed you things that you would already know if you’d ever taken any amount of time to learn about economics. Or just used google.
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