It's very easy. Any commodity-producing business falls apart without the workers actually producing the commodities. a commodity-producing business does not necessarily fall apart if it has no CEO or board of directors. This is why you can have a worker-owned cooperative like Huawei or Mondragon see huge international success but you will never see a company that is just a CEO and board of directors with no commodity-producing workers have any success in commodity production. A company that is only owners and no workers will never be successful at commodity production, it can however have a lot of success at private equity, serial litigation, mergers/acquisitions, financial speculation, banking, and other capital services.
Does the food grow because a man owns land? No. Food grows because commodity-producing workers go out there in the heat and till soil, plant crops, water crops, fertilize crops, spread manure over crops, use pesticides on crops, harvest crops.
If the man who owns the land, the seed, the grain silos, the fertilizer, the manure, the pesticides, and the tractors makes more money than the people producing the harvest, it is not because he worked harder, but because he owned means of production. To the extent that he contributes at all, he is not contributing to the production of the commodities with his labor power. He is instead deciding what to do with the surplus value: whether to reinvest it or not. How did he acquire those means of production? It doesn't matter. He may have inherited them, he may have stolen them, he may have worked for them. But once he becomes a capitalist, his income is passive, rooted in the labor-power he buys from others, and based on his ownership rather than his contribution to the production of the commodities.
Marx goes out of his way to make this scientific, but it's so obvious even on an intuitive level that only the high priests of bourgeois ideology bother denying it. Even bourgeois economists before Marx like Ben Franklin, Adam Smith, and David Ricardo accepted this fact. It was only bourgeois economics AFTER Marx which felt so threatened by the revolutionary conclusions Marx made that they felt the need to deny and bury this.
Look at a hot dog stand. If the man who owns the hot dog stand is also the one making the hot dogs, he owns his own means of production, and produces his own commodities for sale to pedestrians. But if he simply owned the hot dog stand and did
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