Gregory's Server@HeavenlyPossum I think you've picked a bad example here. What the capital is contributing in the pharmaceutical industry is paying all those wages for the 10-15 years it takes between "starting work on a new drug" and "having literally anything to show for it".
It would be a big ask for other workers to self organise paying all those scientists and researchers and everyone else all that time.
By all means put all the middle managers on Ark-B though.
@bencurthoys
Capital didn’t contribute anything. Initial investments—which occurred literally 160 years ago—were either borrowed against future revenue generated by workers or expropriated from previous workers.
Capital interposes itself into the flow of resources, but doesn’t actually produce any of those resources. In any case, the people who initially invested are long dead and the current owners played no role in that process whatsoever.