{"id":13590,"date":"2026-09-14T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2026-09-14T00:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:10:03","slug":"jamison-jimenez-discussion-board-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/2026\/09\/14\/jamison-jimenez-discussion-board-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamison Jimenez Discussion Board 4.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) Owners are people who own businesses or companies and make money from other people\u2019s work. Employees work for the owners and get paid wages. For example, a restaurant owner is an owner, while a waiter working there is an employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) I think Adam Smith is saying that labor is what gives things their value. People have to work to make products and provide services, which helps create wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) I agree because class is more about your position in the economy than who you are as a person. Your job, income, and whether you own a business can affect your class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4) It means workers depend on owners for jobs, while owners depend on workers to do the work that makes them money. For example, a store owner needs employees to run the store, and the employees need the job to earn money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Owners are people who own businesses or companies and make money from other people\u2019s work. Employees work for the owners and get paid wages. For example, a restaurant owner is an owner, while a waiter working there is an employee. 2) I think Adam Smith is saying that labor is what gives things their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-4-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}