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where does the profit and rent come from?
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Marx asked this question as well, and he says exploitation;
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those who earn profit exploit the workers.
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But Adam Smith has a different view.
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He says well those who will lend capital and
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those who offer land also deserve part of the value.
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Now let's see how this contradiction can be resolved, how he's dealing with this.
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How can that all value is created by labor
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and belongs to the laborer,
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and nevertheless the capitalist pockets profit
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and the landowner pockets rent for the land?
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Then here this is very much John Locke: