Lol I love that pane 3 just skips over all the important bits. “Yeah so I’m just in possession of capital as an a priori part of my existence which you don’t have, please don’t focus on why that is the case, maybe I got all that money from making pie charts really good, who knows.”
Most of the panels skip over very important questions. Mr. Moneybags has some kind of vision, which implicitly seems to mean he has a right to privately own an industrial process. He analyzed the market, which just so happened to tell him exactly what he wanted to hear. Then it turns out none of that actually mattered because he needs the laborer to actually manifest the tea cups into reality.
And yet, despite all the backround capital and investment and research, without that one key element his dream will only and forever remain a dream. It couldn’t possibly the most valuable part of the production process as a result; it couldn’t be!
without that one key element his dream will only and forever remain a dream
The investment capital and research are essential elements, too. The takeaway isn’t that Mustache Asshole Guy deserves nothing. The takeaway is that he should get paid in accordance with whatever actual work he did developing the marketing plan, whoever built the machinery should get paid in accordance with the actual work that went into that, and the laborer on the line working the machine should get paid in accordance with the work he’s doing. What shouldn’t happen is Mustache Asshole Guy getting to take other laborers’ hard-earned money just because (somehow, magically, without any explanation) he was sitting on a boatload of capital to begin with.
