The Marxist response does revolve around the nature of work! For the worker, estrangement isn’t about losing out on profits, but the fact that they lose the ob

The Marxist response does revolve around the nature of work! For the worker, estrangement isn’t about losing out on profits, but the fact that they lose the object of their labor as soon as it is produced. A worker uses tools they do not own to manipulate raw material they do not own to create products they do not own. The more the worker works, they less valuable and important they become. I spend hours every day writing programs on a laptop I don’t own, run on servers I don’t own, for companies whose services are unknown and foreign to me. The company I work for may or may not be profitable (startups, right?), but the alienation is there nonetheless. Marx certainly wrote about profit. But alienation/estrangement is a very different thing.