When Ben Shapiro isn’t advocating for foreign interventions and regime changes, he can be pretty good on economics.
Like this clip of Shapiro speaking to a left-leaning student who contends that labor is more important than capital because without his services than a factory would not succeed, which suggests higher compensation is in order.
As The Daily Wire EIC points out, it is the company that invests in the factory, in the equipment, in tax and regulatory compliance, in management, in real estate, in transportation, and in every other aspect of the business. The laborer voluntarily sells his human capital at an agreed upon market rate. Moreover, without the factory, the laborer would just be laying in the fetal position and quoting “Das Kapital.” In other words, their labor has little value without the demand from an entrepreneur.
Good job, Ben.
This is why AOC will not speak with Shapiro.
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