Quote (boxboxbox @ Jul 22 2016 07:04am)
do you understand the concept of wealth creation? the profit the capitalist makes is a result of organizing and directing labor to a productive cause. the laborer and business owner are both profiting from their respective productive activities, commensurate with the economic value of those activities
the capitalist's profit isn't really a "result" of anything other than how value appropriation works in a capitalist society. the profit capitalists make isn't necessarily tied to any sort of mental labor they do in in organization or direction, and this is demonstrated by the fact that they can appoint any such duties of organization/direction to another worker (manager) while still appropriating value from all the workers.