You’re again confusing use-value with value proper. Loans have utility, but no value. Usury is a drain on resources. “Risk” has absolutely nothing to do with value except for the fact that values are normalized around their social averages. Entertainment is entirely different from loans, and further is just like any other commodity, the value of which is regulated around the socially necessary labor time and raw materials that goes into its creation and not some abstract utility.
that theory seems fundamentally flawed as it would only work in the long term and makes no accommodations for the short term with technological innovation we live in now
preventing people from being able to take large (few tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars) risks in hopes of refinulous profit (trillions in profits from not needing as many workers)
Risk has no bearing on value. Technological progression lowers the necessary working time to replace the means of subsistence for workers, which wages are regulated towards, meaning a greater ratio of the working day can be used on surplus value extraction. Ie, if machine A can create 100 widgets per hour per worker, and a worker needs 300 widgets per day worth of value to survive, then the working day of 8 hours has 5 hours surplus labor. If machine B ups that to 300 widgets per hour, then that becomes 1 hour of necessary labor and 7 surplus, increasing profit. Risk has no bearing, nor utility.
All of this can be handled publicly, without a need for profit.
risk is economically relevant, a 10% chance of $100 dollars or a 100% chance of $10 do not have the same use-value to everyone. Why not instead just force companies to pay asymptoticly more taxes for profit?
Nothing needs to have the same use-value across all of society. What’s important is that use-values are produced, and sold for their exchange-value on average. There’s no reason to retain the profit motive or capitalism in general as a system. You should read the article I linked. Risk creates no value.
I never said risk creates value, I mentioned that removal of risk creates value. profit is the only way I’m aware of that let’s me amass a horde of anything of value as such any system that doesn’t allow profit is a failure.
Removal of risk facilitates the creation of value, but isn’t value itself. If, for example, it takes 100 dollars of constant capital and 20 dollars of variable to produce 100 widgets, with 10 dollars worth of raw materials being expected waste, reducing that to 0 results in 90 constant and 20 variable, which isn’t creation of value itself but an improvement in the productivity of capital.
Profit through capitalist production, ie exploitation of labor, is stolen value. You can work to improve your material conditions in systems that aren’t driven by profit, selling your labor-power is how the vast majority of people pay for their subsistence, but this isn’t “profit,” but wages.
You’re again confusing use-value with value proper. Loans have utility, but no value. Usury is a drain on resources. “Risk” has absolutely nothing to do with value except for the fact that values are normalized around their social averages. Entertainment is entirely different from loans, and further is just like any other commodity, the value of which is regulated around the socially necessary labor time and raw materials that goes into its creation and not some abstract utility.
Here’s a good basic summary of what I’m talking about.
that theory seems fundamentally flawed as it would only work in the long term and makes no accommodations for the short term with technological innovation we live in now
In what way?
preventing people from being able to take large (few tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars) risks in hopes of refinulous profit (trillions in profits from not needing as many workers)
Risk has no bearing on value. Technological progression lowers the necessary working time to replace the means of subsistence for workers, which wages are regulated towards, meaning a greater ratio of the working day can be used on surplus value extraction. Ie, if machine A can create 100 widgets per hour per worker, and a worker needs 300 widgets per day worth of value to survive, then the working day of 8 hours has 5 hours surplus labor. If machine B ups that to 300 widgets per hour, then that becomes 1 hour of necessary labor and 7 surplus, increasing profit. Risk has no bearing, nor utility.
All of this can be handled publicly, without a need for profit.
risk is economically relevant, a 10% chance of $100 dollars or a 100% chance of $10 do not have the same use-value to everyone. Why not instead just force companies to pay asymptoticly more taxes for profit?
Nothing needs to have the same use-value across all of society. What’s important is that use-values are produced, and sold for their exchange-value on average. There’s no reason to retain the profit motive or capitalism in general as a system. You should read the article I linked. Risk creates no value.
I never said risk creates value, I mentioned that removal of risk creates value. profit is the only way I’m aware of that let’s me amass a horde of anything of value as such any system that doesn’t allow profit is a failure.
Removal of risk facilitates the creation of value, but isn’t value itself. If, for example, it takes 100 dollars of constant capital and 20 dollars of variable to produce 100 widgets, with 10 dollars worth of raw materials being expected waste, reducing that to 0 results in 90 constant and 20 variable, which isn’t creation of value itself but an improvement in the productivity of capital.
Profit through capitalist production, ie exploitation of labor, is stolen value. You can work to improve your material conditions in systems that aren’t driven by profit, selling your labor-power is how the vast majority of people pay for their subsistence, but this isn’t “profit,” but wages.
Again, read the article.