[inigyou]

Some Nvidia employees are making graphics cards, that cost $1000, and use $300 of materials, and being paid $200. $500 is being extracted from the value chain at that point and some of that is going to you because you own Nvidia stock.

[twoodfin]

Ah, the labor theory of value. That makes sense.

It’s totally incoherent and unreliable as an explanation for an economy, but it explains the comments in this thread.

[inigyou]

Did you reply to the wrong comment by mistake?

[twoodfin]

What would that $500 not being “extracted from the value chain” look like?

[inigyou]

It would either be passed along the chain or it would not enter the chain.

[twoodfin]

Seriously, what does “passed along the chain” look like in your example?

[inigyou]

Given to the people who create the value.