Most businesses like to separate their costs into Labor, Rent, Electricity, Taxes, Fines, ect. The Truth is, all costs are labor. There is almost no cost that does not have to do with labor. Whether it is the cost of paying rent, or the cost of setting up factory equipment, or the cost of purchasing materials. All goods and services are produced by labor.
Machines and tools do not get paid a salary. A cashier gets paid a salary, a cash register does not get paid a salary. However while the store owner does not pay an hourly wage to the cash register, the manufacturer of that cash register must still get paid a salary to have it delivered to the store owner.
The tailor gets paid a salary, the linen cloth does not get paid a salary. But the individual who produced the linen cloth gets paid a salary.
Thus in the end, all goods and services, the entire global economy comes down to the price of human labor.
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