The Capitalist Economy, Chapter 11 - The Rate and Mass of Surplus Value

The capitalist really doesn't care about the workers so long as they are earning the capitalists surplus value. So if it takes six hours to cover the worker's subsistence, or four hours in theex i gave earlier, those four hours cost the capitalist forty dollars. Or if the capitalist wants to pull a really good trick, they will just value the labor the laborer's value. And we'll talk about this mo chapter four. They had the government on their side as well and other institutions, in order to keep the people in line to allow exploitation to occur.