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Well the last 4 lines are where this falls apart. He doesn’t even own the machines he has a loan for them and the bank wants $4/day in interest and principal and then there’s insurance and taxes and blah blah blah
He doesn’t even own the machines he has a loan
Not in this example. But sure, let’s say he does. Nothing falls apart. Sure, an X amount of dollars go to the cost od doing business, such as taxes, maintenance, the rest should go to the worker.
Not a fan of capitalism, but you’re saying the person who ponies up his own life savings should get nothing? The person who takes all the risk, who loses their home if the company fails? Note that the person you replied to suggested nearly the entire $6/item margin covered by costs. In the real world, sometimes that’s MORE THAN $6/item and they’re working at a loss for years.
I don’t like capitalism, and small businesses adding risk and working at a loss “for a dream” is part of why… Expecting the small- or even medium-business owners to throw themselves into the meat grinder is not the solution. Anyone who isn’t a billionaire is suffering under capitalism, not just the blue collar workers.
Exactly. We are fools to think we are special, our any different to the generations before us who also wanted escape.
There is no escape from capitalism for us, only eventual death. I’ve learned to accept that, sad as it is.
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You are being needlessly obtuse
The engineers designing the product and the one making the orders are also works. They are also being underpaid.
Of course revenue is not the same as profit. Everyone knows that. But sometimes to spread a message effectively you have to summarize the thought. You can’t have in the image above all the taxes, costs and other shit where money needs to go to without it losing its point.
All of those other tasks are also done by workers. Imagine replacing the Owner/Worker arrangement with a Co-op. Then instead of the CEO taking 120x the salary of one of his workers unjustifiably, all of the workers would share the profit fairly evenly, and their wages would actually rise with their own collective productive capacity. Every bit of work they do would be rewarded, and it would encourage actually giving a shit.
