Someone I think on this forum suggested that capital is simply "distilled labour". That's a very interesting idea. It got me thinking.
Let's say I go out & work for an hour to earn $10 of capital. Being a lazy a$$ I then think to myself, mmm I might send my $10 capital to work for an hour instead of going to work myself. How much could I expect to earn? Well if the stock market earns say 10% PER ANNUM, what would I get for 1 hour of use of that capital assuming 40 hours per week? Let's see, $10 x 10% /50 weeks /40hrs = 0.05 cents. 1 hour of labour is therefore 20,000 times more valuable than capital.
Am I missing something here? Have I stuffed up the maths?
Let's say I go out & work for an hour to earn $10 of capital. Being a lazy a$$ I then think to myself, mmm I might send my $10 capital to work for an hour instead of going to work myself. How much could I expect to earn? Well if the stock market earns say 10% PER ANNUM, what would I get for 1 hour of use of that capital assuming 40 hours per week? Let's see, $10 x 10% /50 weeks /40hrs = 0.05 cents. 1 hour of labour is therefore 20,000 times more valuable than capital.
Am I missing something here? Have I stuffed up the maths?
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