Absolutely. That’s the whole point. Remember: he chose to assign himself an annual allowance for “entertainment” the size of 10 of his workers’ wages. Could h

Absolutely. That’s the whole point. Remember: he chose to assign himself an annual allowance for “entertainment” the size of 10 of his workers’ wages. Could he have went with just 9 wages and bump the salary of his workers a bit? Probably. Could he have contributed it to the communist cause more to drive systemic change? Probably. But he chose not to. You cannot adhere to the labor theory of value and make such choices without either knowing that what you do is theft, or knowing that LTV is wrong.