1. Owners make their money, their profit from the work done by their employees. The owners in a sense provide the jobs, but don’t do the job themselves. They survive from the profits they make from investments or businesses they own. They allow their money to “grow”, as their workers do what is needed in order for them to thrive. The employees are the ones that make the company or the businesses run, the ones that do the hard work, they live off their wages and not investments.
  2. I think Adam Smith’s quote means, that labor is the real value, the real wealth. The labor is what creates the wealth, not the other way around.
  3. I both agree and disagree that class is not an identity but that it can also be. It should not define who we are as a person, but it does in a way define where we end up in the “data” page.
  4. I believe the whore means that both the owner and the employee are dependent on each other. The owner depends on the employee in order to continue growing their wealth. But they can’t do that if the employee does not show up for work or decides to strike. As the employee also depends on the owner to have a job. Much like an advertising company, if the art department of that company decides they will strike as a department together, it means the owner of the company will suffer as their clients will not receive the work they are expecting. Making the owner look bad and not make a profit from their workers.

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