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by ETH_start 1086 days ago
>shareholders who want to profit from extracting surplus value from their labor.

Profit is not surplus value from workers' labor. It is compensation for the value contributed by investment. Without profit, there is no investment, and without investment, there is no wage growth:

https://fee.org/media/12421/20130708_whywagesrise.pdf