• downpunxx
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    010 months ago

    While I’m as pro Union as they come, I do not personally believe Labor Is Entitled To All It Creates, there’s a place for Entrepreneurial, Investment, Ownership and Management cut outs, but I believe these percentages should be strictly monitored and regulated. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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      10 months ago

      If they actually do any labor in those tasks, then yes. Labour doesn’t necessarily mean the bottom level stuff. Management still takes work. Setting up new businesses takes work.

      Investment and ownership intrinsically aren’t really labor though. Just owning the company doesn’t add anything of value to anyone, and investing is more like a trade agreement. Should be honored, but not necessarily treated the same. Because investment does help create, and the owners presumably have done work to get from nothing to something of value in the first place. Ideally, anyway. This isn’t necessarily true in reality. Plenty of owners inherited, and why should they be entitled just for being born lucky?

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        010 months ago

        Many projects take a long time to become profitable. The workers would starve until then.

        Because of that, they need to borrow wealth to be able to keep working on the project until it becomes profitable.

        The concept of lending wealth is therefore necessary.

        Noone is gonna accept the risk of lending out wealth unless they expect some gain, some profit.

        Therefore the workers promise to not only repay the lent wealth but to also pay on top of that, perhaps a share of the project’s profit.

        Hence the concept of profitable investment is necessary.

        • @SlikPikker@lemmy.ca
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          110 months ago

          They don’t starve if food production is turned to the goal of feeding humans.

          You think entirely too small.

          Humans made Capitalism, and we can unmake it.