• ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Hell yeah, this is the free gifts of nature in a nutshell.

    […] the “free gift of Nature to capital.” Capitalist exploitation and accumulation, as Marx explains, ultimately depend on capital’s usurping of nature’s gifts for itself, thereby monopolizing the means of production and wealth in its entirety

    Probably better sources, but this is the first best one I found.

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        11 months ago

        Close. Farming is labour, which is what gives economic value to the free gifts. The capitalists skim excess value from this process in the form of wage theft and other fuckery.

        I’m simplifying, but yeah.