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Under capitalism, when you as the owner of the factory, >> [music] >> you give me a wage. The wage could be $7.25, it could be $15, it could be whatever an hour, right? But you you give me a wage. All the additional profit above the made from selling the pencils or whatever good you produce above what is reinvested into the company, [music] all ultimately goes to you or the investors, the those who own shares in the means of production.
Under socialism, those people are the workers. And the example I give again is cooperative enterprise. >> are the people who are investing the risk. So if they carry the risk, then they get the benefit. The owner of the factory carries the risk, therefore he gets the benefit.
The workers in the company you mentioned, if that company were to go bankrupt, they would carry the risk as well as the benefit. If the company goes bankrupt and this guy has to pay off all of [music] his debts, the worker may lose his job, but he's not the one who's going to incur the debt of having gone bankrupt. If you incur [music] risk, then you are the one who pays the downside. The worker does not pay the downside.
Okay, it is the investor who pays the downside who invested in all the machinery, who sunk millions of dollars into making your labor productive. Because guess what? Your labor is without that machinery, >> [music] >> dunk, nothing. You don't have a pencil to put together, you don't have the wood, you don't have the you don't have the paint, you don't have the rubber, you don't have the metal, you got nothing. Right? You're sitting there, standing outside, twiddling your thumbs. >> [music] >> It required somebody to invest. Who do you say put more in? The guy who spent millions of dollars buying all the machinery, leasing the place, making sure there was a management structure, doing the LLC formation, making sure all the tax code was in compliance, or you standing outside because you can stick a piece of graphite into a piece of wood?