Anyone else love how something like 90% of being a lefty is having to contend with lazily wrought strawmen? Love when more than half the burden is getting people to correctly understand what they’re arguing against.

“Took the risk of investing my money” - if you have enough cash on hand to start a manufacturing business, you’re already sat on a pile of extracted wealth (either personally stolen from your workers at other companies you own, or inherited from your family who did the dirty work for you).

This is probably the most common petty bourgeois fairy tale. It has nothing to do with material reality under late imperialism, where 500 colossal multinationals control most of the world economy.

Lol I love that pane 3 just skips over all the important bits. “Yeah so I’m just in possession of capital as an a priori part of my existence which you don’t have, please don’t focus on why that is the case, maybe I got all that money from making pie charts really good, who knows.”

hahaha no one pays for training anymore.

No this is fair, we can place a value on the bosses initial labour.

once that loan is paid back they can, of course, fuck off.