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I know this is a meme community and probably not the right place to ask. But the meme prompted my question and I promise this is a good faith question.
If labor is entitled to all it creates (i agree! In principle), who determines what that is? For example - someone operating an injection molding machine might "create" a million doodads in a year. But the machine and the material and the electricity and the QA of those doodads are all created/done by someone else. How is that divvied up?
Personally I am leaning toward UBI funded by a capital tax, along with a functional labor market, as kind of a solution here. But I'd appreciate any easy-to-digest references.
The thing last trips me up is the idea that there's no value added by the employer so it's all theft. Sure, the value added is definitely less than what the employer keeps, but there is some value added even if it's only in the sense of an agent getting "buyers" for your labour.
I was playing a little life sim game (Kynseed. It's not bad)
I bought the town general store, and money just started rolling in. I didn't really have to do anything. The staff I hired dealt with customers and stocked the shelves, but I was keeping all the profits. I actually felt kind of guilty about how brazenly but also thoughtlessly capitalist it is.
I felt less bad when I started bringing in rarer stuff to sell (because people need to buy monster parts and fish, I guess), but the default is just "I own this so I get money without work"
Anyway. It's just a video game but it made me think