To justify exploitation it is often argued that capitalists are risking a lot of money in each entrepreneurship. But isn’t the worker risking his life-time as well? Why do we value the risk that one runs and not that of both?
The entrepreneur is risking money.
He risks dead work, work proved productive and done in the past that for ideological reasons takes a symbolic-quantitative form: money.
The worker is risking his life.
He risks emotional and physical exhaustion by doing something not meaningful to him. Wear that can affect his daily life in many ways.
Conclusion
The entrepreneur risks more only in ideological-symbolic terms. That is, only if our society believe that it is possible to accumulate dead work and that a digit is worth more than a person’s time. Whoever thinks the entrepreneur risks more is an accomplice of a society that values objects more than life.
