> Cue the communist states creating the biggest and most useless ones.
Communism wasn't Marxism. Marxism has the probably even-bigger flaw of being completely impossible to put into practice in the real world.
That's the problem with the genius of Marx. He was able to quite convincingly deconstruct the issues with capitalism, without being able to recommend a better replacement that could survive first contact with the masses.
>>...that is what I was covering.
But the cost of materials is one thing (and not related to the employees), the value added by the company, another.
>> And I can go on and on about how government can't break up monopolies
Cue the communist states creating the biggest and most useless ones.