Discussion 5.2

Entrepreneurs can continue to amass wealth because they already have money to spend on goods to produce more goods and sell them for more money. If the owners of capital can always reinvest their funds and carry out their transactions as frequently and swiftly as possible buying to sell, beginning with money to acquire more money this aids in the development of their capital. This shows why they have remained wealthy over time. Without work, business owners cannot generate wealth or profit. Surplus value, or all the additional money that goes into the owner’s pocket instead of the worker’s, is how they make money off what they sell since they sell it for more than it is actually worth. MCM’ The first M represents the currency that is utilized to produce the commodity, which is C. The quantity of work/labor required to make the finished goods is represented by C, and the money at the end of the transaction, M’, has a higher value than the first M. This is what Karl Marx argues that workers are worth more than they are paid.