One of the most important authors of our time

One of the most important authors of our time.

fug the commies, amiright guyze?

holy shit surplus value extractors BTFO

Great writer and thinker. A shame he retired.

I have no idea who is even targeted by that quote. The capitalist owners or the commies? Because it works just as well for both.

The thing about arguments like that is that they can easily be turned on their head. Why should a manager receive higher pay when he has little to no involvement in the actual production of goods or services, and probably only a partial idea of how said goods etc. are produced? The bosses are the actual parasites; anyone who's ever had a job realizes this.

If the shareholders disliked the manager then they'd fire him. If the managers were so bad then the company would be outcompeted by companies with no / less managers and then go out of business.

Oh, wait... you're going to ignore the above points and talk about, "The will to animal spirits inherent in the nature of dialectical materialist capital in..."

He would run circles around you in a debate

Response is p obvious in myriad contexts.

I deserve a share of what the mining company upstream from me makes because they fucked up my water. Not denying their work but they physically took health from my community. I will not live as long as I could becasue of that mining company.

only one example, millions more, that make this statement dumb. it's a common post-randian nothing that shouldn't even be tolerated. Of course other people's work needs to be moved around. You really think working for yourself is fulfilling and furthermore, ever not affecting someone else? Come on.

>the shareholders
And what did they work to create?