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The value of products realized at the point of sale, minus the costs of (non-labor) inputs and operating expenses, is the value generated by the labor of workers in a business.
If a business is privately owned for the profit of its owners, then the profit is a share of the value generated by the workers, but claimed by owners, who contribute no labor toward generating the value.
Suppose there is a a construction company that wins a million dollar contract to build parking lots. How should the owner compensate workers? What about subcontractors and suppliers?
I am not offering anyone business advice.
Your objection is dishonest.
I never expressed any intention to implement a construction company.
You asked how someone else ought to implement a construction company.
What answer might you expect, other than it's not my business?
You see, business is private, not public. Your question is meaningless with respect to the context, of supporting the public interest.
Agriculture is also a private business. You're making less sense now than you were a moment ago.
I am sorry you are struggling so much with your comprehension of concepts.
I will try to make the matter completely plain.
Agriculture is a practice for land utilization, involving labor, to produce food.
Business is a social structure, within which workers, through utilizing a productive asset claimed as the private property of the business, and through providing their labor to the business, create a product whose sale generates a profit for the business owner.
Agriculture may occur within the context of a private business, by utilizing lands claimed as its private property, to produce food for sale, through the labor provided by workers.
Accordingly, a private business may generate a profit by the sale of food, produced through utilizing lands claimed as its private property, and through the labor provided by workers.
Now, please pay very close attention.
Business may create a product not through utilizing land, and even may create a product that is not food.
Even more remarkably, agriculture may occur outside of private business, and may even occur utilizing lands not claimed as private property.
In summary, all of the following are true...
Hopefully, you are now beginning to understand the concepts that you previously have experienced as elusive and confounding.
If not, then I doubt anyone can help you further, except to suggest that you reread in a few days after letting your thoughts settle.
If you cannot respond to my explanation constructively, then please take your trolling elsewhere.
got a tldr for me bud? I'm going to work and don't have time. gotta earn my keep
OK troll.