can't agree with the premise of the video
if workers created the value they wouldn't need to work for someone they would work for themselves
their labor only has value due to the environment created by the person " who exploits them"
being very good at basketball is worthless outside the system of the NBA
just like most of the labor or knowledge work people do is worthless outside of the context that the business owners provide
There always going to be a negotiation between what someone feels they should be paid and what someone wants to pay you
Its case by case. Some people have production roles at work while other people have support roles.
Every single production role can be monetized independently of the employer. Its the difference between HR/middle mgmt/surgical tech and the sales/factory worker/surgeon. The production workers
ARE THE SYSTEM that creates support roles. They are the value in its entirety.
Its not necessarily the system, but fear of risk that keeps production workers from monetizing their value. Its why doctors/nurses/cooks/farm hands work w2 jobs when they can very easily sell their services independently, with a higher earnings cap if they believed in themselves.
its like Uber people can pick up people and take them on rides by themselves
but they use Uber app because its a system they benefit from
Drivers are most definitely production workers so this is inaccurate.
For the example, couriers and transit drivers have existed for more than a century before uber. Hell, taxi companies could be started by a single person in most major cities with a car, a city permit, and bussiness phone number. So i disagree with your last point.
These guys really don't benefit from the system at all, Because their earning capacity and earnings cap was much higher as taxi drivers or couriers or transit drivers or limo drivers before uber. They just arent willing to take the risk to directly sell their product.
