A]

Alex, the saying “labor in and of its own is worth nothing” is true because just because does the labor does not make them as valuable as someone who works twice or even three times as hard them. The value of a laborer will always be on how hard they work and how much work they get done in the factory or wherever they work and not just doing the very minimum.

Alex, the reasoning for the manager making more money than the factory workers is because there is more workers and usually just one manager, this one person is expected to be less expendable than the hundreds of factory workers and has to be in charge of all of these workers and do the jobs that are not hands on such as more paperwork and are expected to come up with ideas that can make the factory more efficient and make the owners of the company more money.

B]

The quote is true because labor is only worth the product you are producing. In a factory a line worker does not have to have a degree of higher education. They are just producing the product itself or have something to do with handling the product. In order to have your labor worth more a person must have a degree of some form. This is the reason why the manager gets to sit in his air conditioned office all day because that person has a higher form of education and they work with the logistic and economic side of things with the factory which is more important that producing the good itself. The job of working with and handling the widgets is a job that must be available to a wide variety of people because from a certain standpoint the company does not care about the employee that is working in those factories they just need to have their product made and shipped from point A to point B so they will sometimes pay those employees the bare minimum to keep from losing money.