boiled down to “you worked on a thing, so you deserve the entire revenue of that thing”, which obviously isn’t true. Like, if your employer lends you a hammer for free, shouldn’t he be entilted to some of the profits that the hammer creates?
A couple years ago I hired a guy to patch my roof. Now I’m selling my house. How much of the proceeds should I give him?
People start twisting themselves in knots real fast with that example. They generally understand and accept home ownership even if they can’t afford it but they simply can NOT empathize with equity holders otherwise.
It’s like they see a joke that other people do, and think “we must also be seen as capable of this hu-man expression known as “humour” we shall create a “joke” to laugh at with our fellow hu-mans.”
Good god the layers on this
Did you not pay your roofer wtf
yeah those guys have been proved wrong a lot haven’t they
this is apparently the background picture to /r/neoliberal?
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It’s like they see a joke that other people do, and think “we must also be seen as capable of this hu-man expression known as “humour” we shall create a “joke” to laugh at with our fellow hu-mans.”
Where’s the Pinochet head? All the users on that sub want to be him.
Newtonian physics is famously the most accurate and developed physics model for objects of all sizes and in all situations.
The argument goes “and other employees are also paid”
But this isn’t what Marx actually argues, they are arguing against an insipid strawman