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So if I make a program by myself, sell it for profit, I am stealing the wages of the working class?
What if I run a company that does the same, I pay my employees well above market value, yet still manage to make profit for the company, is that also stealing from the working class?
What if I reduce the price to stop making profit, yet won't reduce the pay for my employees, how has that benefitted them?
The employees working at the company, collectively, have produced, maintained, and distributed the product. When the product sells, any profit (the money left after operational costs and reinvestment) was generated by that labor. It isn't all that complicated. That money, under capitalism, is siphoned off by a class that only exists to steal this surplus. I'm sure you'd counter with something about mutual funds and retirement accounts. However, this same class also steals from those dividends as well via fees and set percentages.
Operating costs plus a certain percentage as savings.
You seem to be trying really hard to invalidate the point with whataboutisms as if a single gotcha will invalidate the entire argument.
Nah, I just enjoy pushing arguments further.