I have a hangup with this concept that hopefully Hexbears can help with: passive income. There are ways to make money under Capitalism where there's either a little or close to no labor needed to start, but profit/income is generated on a regular basis.
A good example of this is dividends. The companies that the dividends are based off of perform some sort of labor, create products, etc. But from my end all I have to do is buy shares of the company or fund holding the company and collect money. Same with landlords, loans, credit cards, and all sorts of systems that don't use up labor on an individual level after an initial investment.
IDK, it's just hard to see "labor" producing all of the "value" with the way our economy works these days. A lot of trading profits comes from bots trading with other bots. Lots of online engagement is bots replying to other bots. AI tools make this more blurry because if a person is willing to buy a picture generated in seconds by a machine does the labor value of actual digital artists stop mattering?
When human labor is no longer needed to produce things of value, how do humans stay relevant?
Inspirational tbh