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> investment is literally future labor expectations. and a risk.

This is simply Marxist crap and outright untrue.

> in case of crisis the gov routinely starts bailouts and save the financial markets with interest rate operations or open market operations. those operations have deep re-distributive implications

This is a rather new phenomenon and not at all necessary for profitable private investment.

It's really completely irrelevant to the discussion.

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> This is simply Marxist crap

Not only but also. Adam Smith counted labour this way, along with capital and natural resources.

Until we're all rendered unemployable by AI[0], there's still human labour doing stuff in the system — the bedrock foundation for all the rest.

[0] 2^(1 + roll a D4) years? I expect it to be relevant on the timescale of me reaching pension age, but between Scylla[1] and Charybdis[2] I'm not at all certain.

[1] smoke-and-mirrors marketing

[2] exponential growth

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