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Workers don’t work for themselves because they lack means of production like tools, premises, access to supply and distribution chains, copyrights and patents,
by lucian1900 6y ago
Workers don’t work for themselves because they lack means of production like tools, premises, access to supply and distribution chains, copyrights and patents, etc. They all require initial capital, which workers are far less likely to have than owners and their descendants.
Since we don’t own means of production, all of us workers are forced to sell our labour or perish. We are coerced into working for one set of owners or another, all of which became owners from the profit generated by other workers’ unpaid labour.