{"id":11487,"date":"2025-09-26T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=11487"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:26:29","slug":"db-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/09\/26\/db-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"db 5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are usually owned by the capitalist or business owner, not the worker. For example, in a clothing factory, the sewing machines, the building, and the fabric are all part of the means of production. one the other hand, Labor is the actual work being put into producing the specific thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Value comes from the amount of labor and time invested in creating something. The more time and effort it takes, the more valuable it becomes. That\u2019s why labor and value are connected. Labor creates value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference between labor and labor power is that labor is the work itself, while labor power is your ability to work, which you sell to your boss in exchange for wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surplus value is the extra value workers create that they don\u2019t get paid for. For example, if a worker makes $100 worth of goods but only gets paid $20, the $80 is surplus value that goes to the owner. It\u2019s key to understanding how inequality works in capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-e051-introduction-to-american-government-5-week-summer-2025\/2025\/07\/20\/discussion-board-5-1\/?replytocom=31#respond\">Reply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are usually owned by the capitalist or business owner, not the worker. For example, in a clothing factory, the sewing machines, the building, and the fabric are all part of the means of production. one the other hand, Labor is the actual work being put into producing the specific thing. Value comes from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10728,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11488,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487\/revisions\/11488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}