> 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. The profits

> 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. The profits are the object of their labor. It's the entire reason they're hired in the first place: to produce profit. > The company I work for may or may not be profitable (startups, right?), but the alienation is there nonetheless. And the profit is there nonetheless. Whether or not a venture is profitable does not change the fact that profit motivates it.