Slop.

It's intending to obscure the capitalist relation. The farmer is petty bourgeois (and practically non-existent, agriculture in many countries is extremely proletarianized these days). The loom worker is proletarian, the capitalist A is turning 4 dollars in wool, 1 dollar in tax, and 2 dollars in labor power for 1 dollar in profit. The sewer is also proletarian, the capitalist B turns 8 dollars in raw materials + 1 dollar tax + 2 dollars labor power into 1 dollar in profit.

Capitalist A and B both make 1 dollar in profit per commodity produced, and so redirect that towards expansion of production with the remainder of their money after covering their necessities. Both proletarians along the supply chain had 1 dollar stolen from them per commodity produced in surplus value, and the "Marxist" at the end is a strawman.

Finally, cost of maintaining the tools used and purchasing new ones I am assuming is a part of the "raw materials" category.

Ah yes, the textile industry, which Marx famously had no association with

I made this

But it's AI

"The seamstress pays a capitalist $1 for every sweater she makes by herself"

"Why is a capitalist profiting from her labor?"

"I'm gonna tell Grok to make you look like a clown in my AI comic"

not one mention of a bolt of linen in the manifesto. not a one

I don't see a capitalist doing a lick of work in these images, not sure where this $1 is going. Even in their propaganda it's like, "I just steal from the fruits of your labor"

What a great example of a multi-unserious argument that would take a lot of time and effort to debunk so nobody bothers.

I guess AI is great for making these, it's like an automated debate perverting/mansplaining machine.

"Pay $1 to capitalist" okay now what if you actually paid the entire value of the product to the capitalist and only got paid a wage 1/100th the value of the wool you produce because that's what actually happens

According to numbers I made up your analysis is incorrect

I like how even in their own construct the worker loses a full third of the value they would've taken home to the capitalist

Imagine if every worker got a 33% pay rise tomorrow

well, the global commodity price for fine wool right now is about $0.15 per 100 Kg [edit: i was off by 100x, see below], and the biggest/thickest sweater will require less than 2 lbs. also, that price is up 50% over last year, so lol, the shepherd is not getting $2 on the $15 sweater even in this "high price" market.

the shepherd are making 10-15 cents on the $190-$250 designer label 100% merino wool sweater that is made in a sweatshop where workers make $1.30/hr to flip out 50 of them in an hour.

Just once I want an anti-Marxist to actually put forward an argument against Marx that shows they at least bothered to read chapter 1 of Capital, not even the whole thing, not even all of volume 1, literally just the first chapter. Hell, I'd even take an argument that shows they bothered to at least read the first paragraph.

capitalist (loom) and he claims he took EFFORT to get the AI to spit out this garbage