> It's a non sequitur for me. What? How? We were talking about the exploitation of workers and how that is a core principle of capitalism (Fixed wage labor). H

> It's a non sequitur for me. What? How? We were talking about the exploitation of workers and how that is a core principle of capitalism (Fixed wage labor). How is that a non sequitur? > that I do need to exploit workers You don't need to, but in Capitalism it is the logical consequence of profit optimization. If you - despite your ownership of tools - let the workers that build the furniture partake in the whole non-reinvested profit to fair shares, it isn't Capitalism anymore, it's rather a form of Market Socialism[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism