Just FYI, "surplus value" refers a concept Marx made up that is considered in mainstream economics to be an error in reasoning.
Even making sense of it requires buying into the labor theory of value that Marx took from Adams and Ricardo, but which is not taken seriously anymore.
That doesn't detract from the substance of the point you're making. But it's a little like reading someone say their house is hot because of all the phlogiston. It detracts from the force of the argument.
But also, literally I said a lot. There's enough meat there for someone who hasn't spent much time in the history of economics to spend an entire afternoon going down an enjoyable rabbit hole.
that connection between surplus value and the labour theory of value is fully unexplained in your post, so... you have not said nothing, but you haven't said enough to make your post consequential I'm afraid
Just FYI, "surplus value" refers a concept Marx made up that is considered in mainstream economics to be an error in reasoning.
Even making sense of it requires buying into the labor theory of value that Marx took from Adams and Ricardo, but which is not taken seriously anymore.
That doesn't detract from the substance of the point you're making. But it's a little like reading someone say their house is hot because of all the phlogiston. It detracts from the force of the argument.