➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻💻<p>To follow up on this...</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Neoclassical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoclassical</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a>, jumping off from <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marx</span></a>, conflated <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economic</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/rent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rent</span></a> and <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> in order to justify this kind of behavior.</p><p>TP=NSV+ER+Ext+M<br>Where:</p><p>TP = Total Profit, or Neoclassical profit, or <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxist</span></a> Returns to <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Capital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capital</span></a>.</p><p>NSV = Natural Surplus Value (difference between the natural price and the cost of production). This is Classical Profit. </p><p>ER = Economic Rent (surplus due to privileged control over a scarce factor of production)</p><p>Ext = <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Externalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Externalities</span></a> (surplus generated by offloading production costs onto others) AKA <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a></p><p>M = <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monopoly</span></a> (surplus generated by manipulating <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/supply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supply</span></a> and <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/demand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demand</span></a>, typically through control of the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>market</span></a>)</p><p>Only NSV is what you would call "legitimate", as the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/producer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>producer</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/surplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surplus</span></a> is paired with a <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/consumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consumer</span></a> surplus - their ratio relative to the supply curves.</p><p>Now, all the others _reduce_ the consumer surplus and are therefore <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theft</span></a>.</p><p>Every single <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a> (<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TechCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechCompany</span></a>) - no... every single <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/profitable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profitable</span></a> enough to be widely known, and many that aren't widely known, is _only_ profitable because of theft.</p><p>What's more, every action of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> companies this millennia (including offering services for <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a>) has been designed to engage in this theft.</p>