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Re:Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017) by chii on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:29AM (#27569066)
All investments entitle one to all future productivity produced from said investment. This is the central idea of ownership.

The new capital is _produced_ by the workers, but it was done with initial capital that is _owned_ by the capitalist. So unless you agree that these initial capital is not worth anything (despite it being required), how can _all_ capital belong to the workers that made it? After all, the workers agreed to receive their wage in exchange for producing, using the seed capital supplied by the capitalist.

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Re:Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017) by lucian1900 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:33AM (#27569095)
The initial capital entitles the investor to a fraction of all labour, in perpetuity? Without any further work or investment?

Yes, this appropriation is central to the capitalist idea of ownership. Another word for that is theft.

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