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What's the alternative, the state leeching my labor value? How do the workers own the means of production if they don't create the means of production?
Someone has to provide the capital (oooh, scary word) to start the whole enterprise. If that's you and me coming together with a couple of computers and a grand idea or a truck and set of tools and we're going to go repair people's houses, the market is the best way for us to thrive.
No. You need labor and materials extracted by labor. Labor built the computers. Labor mined the minerals to make the computers. Labor built the factory that makes the computers. Labor operated the factory that makes the computers. Labor uses tools built by labor to repair people's houses as a laborer.
The only thing a capitalist does is own that factory or building or enterprise, and pay workers less than what it generates. That's the definition of profit.