That's not zero-sum, you're being deliberately reductive.
The owner has access to markets, marketing, distribution that allows him to get a much higher price for a good than the laborer does.
You can try to sell your wood furniture for $100 as a craftsman at a flea market and waste your time on sales, marketing, returns and all kinds of crap.
Or you can make it for Rooms To Go and let them handle that shit.
It's not always zero sum, it depends on the individual relationship.
Painting with such broad strokes (and incessantly arguing with everyone, even those philosophically disposed to your side) just pushes people away from your philosophy even more.
"and incessantly arguing with everyone, even those philosophically disposed to your side"
What? You are arguing for capitalism, without an understanding of the labor theory of value either.
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"The owner has access to markets, marketing, distribution that allows him to get a much higher price for a good than the laborer does."
yes, because he has enough power to control the property. Also the majority of businesses pay somebody to do that.
"It's not always zero sum, it depends on the individual relationship."
either he gets what he gets the equivalent of what he produces or he doesn't.
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As someone that does work for wages, and has also worked for profit, as the gain in value of the products I transform through my labor, there is more to the division of labor than power.
Some folks are good at marketing, for example, and thus can add value to the production of a good without being abusive.
@lexiconical's point that you can sell your product at a flea market is a great example. The prices of goods at a flea market are lower than they are at retail stores, for various reasons, and these reasons impact why we produce goods and sell them the way most of us do.
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Value vs price
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You are clearly not being paid as shill by the hour, as you would flesh out your replies if you were.
That off my chest, price is determined by value, which is dependent on many things. As you point out, they are not the same thing.
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