I’ve never heard this nonsense. Baristas’ labor adds use value to beans by turning them into flat whites. How do you fuck this up?
Edit to add:
No it’s not, the barista’s labor accounts for less than 5% of the real cost of the commodity, 95% of the real value already exists in the commodity. Please read Marx.
Aside from this person not bothering to do the math, they don’t seem to understand unequal exchange. They seem to be equivalating the periphery’s labor wages with that of the labor aristocrats in the imperial core who benefit (less and less lately) from their inequality.
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