Classic debate: labor theory of value, adding physical manipulations into the world is true value, the works of bankers, marketers, etc. are not “true” work creating true value.
This ignores the enabling and empowering effect of those actions. You wouldn’t have many companies without banks to loan money for capital investment. How could a new but better product make headway without some form of marketing? In our world, Physical workers need some help to get their products made.
It’s like saying the goal keeper, midfield, and defense aren’t valuable since only the striker scores the goal.
Very few companies producing physical goods make the kind of money that companies producing meta-physical goods do. They produce more money at a fraction of the cost. Value is always an issue of culture and the west in particular values money above all, so all inefficient labor relative to the task of making money is devalued. It's easy enough to point the finger and say "wall st bad" but we enshrined it collectively as a culture.
This ignores the enabling and empowering effect of those actions. You wouldn’t have many companies without banks to loan money for capital investment. How could a new but better product make headway without some form of marketing? In our world, Physical workers need some help to get their products made.
It’s like saying the goal keeper, midfield, and defense aren’t valuable since only the striker scores the goal.