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Stealing my labor means that I do all the work, and they take all the profit.

This would be true even if I signed a contract stating that I give all my labor away for free to my exploiter. You cannot sign away your rights like that, and my exploiter is not allowed to abuse my goodwill this way.

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It sounds like you're making a claim to someone else's profits with a very thin rationale for why you had anything to do with it. Basically, claiming something that never was yours and has next to nothing to do with anything you worked on.

My labor was mine. Even the worst capitalist ideologues admit that workers own their own labor and the sell it to their employer for wages.

You are basically arguing in feudalism. My labor belonged to my landlord and they had full right to take all the profit for them selves.

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