alt Hacker News" The central argument of Capital is that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value and profit. "
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WalterBright • yesterday at 11:21 PM
Old soviet joke:
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the other way around!
Myself, I always exploited my employers by extracting money from them.
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Marx's labour theory of value is only a theory of where profits come from and is largely rejected. Return on captial investment is not restricted to factory owners. All workers get a share of the surplus value and have the option to increase that by investing.