Not a communist, but having ideas isn’t labor, execution of ideas is.<p>In the context of creativity, labor is the long process of rejecting all of the bad ideas before you get to the good one.<p>Also, part of the thesis of the labor movement was that workers should be compensated for producing value, not for working “hard”. Briefly, this means that wages don&#x27;t have to decline as advances in technology make life easier.<p>The modern tech industry is weird because the laborers build the machines that they use (where “machine” means things like algorithms, not laptops).