{"id":6335,"date":"2025-06-11T04:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:46:36","slug":"discussion-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/2025\/06\/11\/discussion-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion 5.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M-C-M\u2019 stands for Money &#8211; Commodity &#8211; More Money, and it helps explain how capitalists stay rich. Basically, a capitalist starts with money (M), uses it to buy or make something (C), and then sells that thing to make even more money (M\u2019). The goal isn\u2019t just to break even\u2014it\u2019s to make a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The important part is the M\u2019\u2014the extra money they end up with. That profit mostly comes from workers, because they get paid less than the value they actually produce. So, by repeating this process over and over, capitalists keep growing their wealth. It\u2019s not about meeting people\u2019s needs\u2014it\u2019s about turning money into even more money. That\u2019s how the system works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-C-M\u2019 stands for Money &#8211; Commodity &#8211; More Money, and it helps explain how capitalists stay rich. Basically, a capitalist starts with money (M), uses it to buy or make something (C), and then sells that thing to make even more money (M\u2019). The goal isn\u2019t just to break even\u2014it\u2019s to make a profit. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10663,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}