The Dialectics of Profit

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The Dialectics of Profit 

Karmo Talts

 

 

Let's examine profit dialectically. The lowest level negation of profit means that profit does not exist. However, this only applies to companies that do not make a profit. 

Now let's look at a slightly higher-level negation of profit. Profit does exist, but it does not belong to the company's employees. 

Let's synthesize. The wage combines a negation, because not all profit is paid as wages, and an affirmation, because from the moment the company starts making money, wages are paid from the company's earned money. 

Let's now examine a higher-level negation of wage. Employees do receive a wage, but the amount paid as wages to employees is less than the entrepreneur's income. 

Let's synthesize. A wage increase combines a negation, because a higher wage does not mean that employees will get all the profit for themselves, and an affirmation, because a wage increase brings employees' income closer to the entrepreneur's income. 

Let's now examine a higher-level negation of wage increase. If we do not consider the situation in which the entrepreneur owns the resources and tools to be unfair, then at first glance it seems that justice is achieved when the profit is divided in half between the employees and the entrepreneur. However, each individual employee still receives a smaller share of the profit than the entrepreneur. 

Let us synthesize. The equalization of the incomes of the entrepreneur and each individual employee contains a negation, because the employees do not receive all the profit for themselves, and an affirmation, because the income of the individual employee and the entrepreneur is equal. 

It seems highly unlikely that any entrepreneur would agree to such an equalization of internal incomes. However, let us try to consider this reluctance of entrepreneurs as a high-level negation of the equalization of the incomes of entrepreneurs and employees. 

Let us synthesize. The synthesis must in practice lead to the equalization of incomes and consist in a change in the attitude of entrepreneurs, because without a change in attitude, the entrepreneur would not accept such an equalization. Such a changed attitude could be based on professional pride.The entrepreneur could be proud of being able to make the company profitable, and money could be less important to him than pride from a well-done entrepreneurial job.