The risk of loosing money, not life. Investment of stolen profits.
here we go with the downtrodden masses tripe again.
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mere money represents an individual's ability to survive and to make life better for himself and those around him. in most cases, that investment began with the proceeds of labor or risk and is not merely unearned wealth. you can cite examples of thieves and robber barons all day long, but they will always be far fewer than the number of men and women who came by their wealth honestly and risked it in an investment in hopes of some return.
In certain circumstances it does have value but no more so than the physical labor put into producing a product.
i can dig ditches all day long, but that labor is worthless unless there is some purpose for them. that purpose is the value that the direction of management provides.
It's called self-organization and it's certainly possible.
of course it's possible, but how often does this really happen? how often do workers organize an enterprise, agree to a course of action and carry through? most business begins with the vision of an individual or a small group of individuals who are willing to risk failure and the loss of capital in order to produce and/or provide something. i applaud communal effort and see it as a goal worth striving for, but that takes a consensus that is willing to risk failure when most of us would rather take the easier road that insures a steady, if meager, income.
Who made whose tools, mined for those materials?
did they receive compensation for that labor and those materials? unless you are willing to relinquish all concept of ownership, even over your own body and mind, you cannot honestly arrive at some arbitrary point at which ownership ceases to exist. when i remodel a kitchen and am paid for my work, i relinquish my control over that kitchen. so too does any labor or material become someone else's property once recompense is received.
The thing is that the people 'organizing' the production of these goods take 90% of the value of a workers labor away.
i'll ignore your arbitrary 90% figure for now and merely state that the value of that labor was not "taken away", but that its providers were compensated at an agreed upon rate and that value was added to the value of the whole. the labor wasn't stolen. unless slavery was involved, the labor was contracted for and provided. nothing more, nothing less.