Can someone explain to me why Dale Earnhardt is the face of anticonsumption/anticapitalist memes? Is there a reason, or just because it's funny to imagine a guy that literally wears his sponsors on his sleeve encouraging class solidarity?
Capital is more like stored labour. The first ever capital was just a starp stick or spear. Someone spent labour and it resulted in a more productive way to hunt animals. This almost immediately would’ve resulted in inequality as the spear hunter caught more game. It’s not that the capital was taking anything from the labourer, it’s actually that capital and labour work really well together and humans are more productive with capital.
Capital is surplus labor that has already been produced by wage laborers and extracted by Capital Owners. Capital owners then use the capital created by labor to extract more Capital via various financial instruments which exist to extract the value created by labor. Making it a cyclical loop growing more and more capital resulting in the vast wealth that Billionaires, corporations, and hedge funds possess today.
In a ML system, how does labor aquire the tools and facilities they need to do their work? If they pay for it themselves do workers who join later need to compensate the earlier workers?
If bank loans still exist and the workers take one, they are giving some of the value they create to the bank. Again, do future workers compensate past workers who made that sacrifice?