Slop.

Just once I want an anti-Marxist to actually put forward an argument against Marx that shows they at least bothered to read chapter 1 of Capital, not even the whole thing, not even all of volume 1, literally just the first chapter. Hell, I'd even take an argument that shows they bothered to at least read the first paragraph.

I took effort to make this.

Still more effort than the capitalist is putting into the production chain of each sweater tho

I don't see a capitalist doing a lick of work in these images, not sure where this $1 is going. Even in their propaganda it's like, "I just steal from the fruits of your labor"

I like how even in their own construct the worker loses a full third of the value they would've taken home to the capitalist

Imagine if every worker got a 33% pay rise tomorrow

According to numbers I made up your analysis is incorrect

Now introduce shareholders, vertical integration monopolies, and exploitation of global south.

"The seamstress pays a capitalist $1 for every sweater she makes by herself"

"Why is a capitalist profiting from her labor?"

"I'm gonna tell Grok to make you look like a clown in my AI comic"

Yeah ok except the worker in these infographics is getting a cut of the profits of every sale.

#1 has no capitalist

#2 worker makes 66% of the profit per sale while capitalist makes 33%

#3 Same as 2

If they want to make a 66% cut of profits per sale the minimum wage in capitalism we can roll with that.

Ah yes, the textile industry, which Marx famously had no association with

I made this

But it's AI

literally "its over for you because i have already drawn myself as the chad you as the virgin"

not one mention of a bolt of linen in the manifesto. not a one

"Pay $1 to capitalist" okay now what if you actually paid the entire value of the product to the capitalist and only got paid a wage 1/100th the value of the wool you produce because that's what actually happens

It's intending to obscure the capitalist relation. The farmer is petty bourgeois (and practically non-existent, agriculture in many countries is extremely proletarianized these days). The loom worker is proletarian, the capitalist A is turning 4 dollars in wool, 1 dollar in tax, and 2 dollars in labor power for 1 dollar in profit. The sewer is also proletarian, the capitalist B turns 8 dollars in raw materials + 1 dollar tax + 2 dollars labor power into 1 dollar in profit.

Capitalist A and B both make 1 dollar in profit per commodity produced, and so redirect that towards expansion of production with the remainder of their money after covering their necessities. Both proletarians along the supply chain had 1 dollar stolen from them per commodity produced in surplus value, and the "Marxist" at the end is a strawman.

Finally, cost of maintaining the tools used and purchasing new ones I am assuming is a part of the "raw materials" category.

well, the global commodity price for fine wool right now is about $0.15 per 100 Kg [edit: i was off by 100x, see below], and the biggest/thickest sweater will require less than 2 lbs. also, that price is up 50% over last year, so lol, the shepherd is not getting $2 on the $15 sweater even in this "high price" market.

the shepherd are making 10-15 cents on the $190-$250 designer label 100% merino wool sweater that is made in a sweatshop where workers make $1.30/hr to flip out 50 of them in an hour.

capitalist (loom) and he claims he took EFFORT to get the AI to spit out this garbage

What a great example of a multi-unserious argument that would take a lot of time and effort to debunk so nobody bothers.

I guess AI is great for making these, it's like an automated debate perverting/mansplaining machine.

Missing panel -

Capitalist : "I sat on my ass and made $1000, which is already unfair. But to boot, I now have so much wealth I can manipulate the market and influence laws, force workers to choose between starvation or working for me, and thus eternally erode workers' share of the pay until they're reduced to subsistence living at best. This creates an unsustainable cycle where my leverage and control of other people grows forever, only to be balanced by how ludicriously excessive my abuse of people and resources can get".

A lot of folk have already mentioned how this obscures relations in capitalism. It also proposes that reality works like Minecraft, that there's an endless untapped world of resources one may freely exploit. How did I raise sheep? I simply did because land and sheep are available.

Furthermore these liberal hypotheticals might as well be saying "workers should be grateful." Well that's not how the world operates. You can't diffuse political and economic tension by moralizing about it. You can't say someone politically opposed to you is simply wrong. You actually have to deal with intractable political differences between people with different interests. Liberals don't believe in this. They don't believe political distinction exists in an economic sense, they believe it's more down to things like individual personality, religion, media consumption, whatever.

Also this kind of didactic comic is what liberals say when they think they're in charge and can simply dismiss or educate their way out of political conflict. In reality, capitalism is all too eager to do things like strike breaking, austerity, imperialism, whatever else. And yet the liberal infographics never discuss this. They never mention what to do if the workers refuse to work, or if there's industrial sabotage, or the state is pressured into forcing the capitalist to offer concessions. That stuff is assumed to never happen and all conflict between worker and capitalist can be smoothed over through the market. Such as: if the worker is upset, they can simply work somewhere else. Yeah well what if the capitalist is upset? History shows they call in the national guard.

OP's name is Andrew Ecuador?? Weird.

Look how happy the workers are to have such considerate bosses.

I can't imagine being so wrong and then using AI to make a comic to show how stupid I am

Every time I play a game of AoE2 I have to pay 50 gold to capitalist (loom). What is the loom doing with all that gold??

Noob doubt, who is the capitalist here? All of them seem to control their means of production?