Rate of exploitation: Difference between revisions

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Rate of Exploitation (aka Rate of Surplus Value) is the relation of surplus value to variable capital. The higher the surplus value is, relative to the variable capital spent, the higher the rate of exploitation becomes. Put another way, Surplus value/Variable capital = Rate of Exploitation.


Company	Rate of explaitation (lower bound)	Sources	Year
Apple Inc.	177 %	^[1]	2023
Amazon.com, Inc.	9.7 %	^[2]	2023
Microsoft Corp	139 %	^[3]	2022
Alphabet Inc.	82 %	^[4]	2023

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 '''Rate of Exploitation''' (aka Rate of Surplus Value) is the relation of [[Surplus value|surplus value]] to [[Variable capital|variable capital]]. The higher the [[Surplus value|surplus value]] is, relative to the [[Variable capital|variable capital]] spent, the higher the '''rate of exploitation''' becomes. Put another way, [[Surplus value|Surplus value]]/[[Variable capital|Variable capital]] = '''Rate of Exploitation'''.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Company
+!Rate of explaitation (lower bound)
+!Sources
+!Year
+|-
+|Apple Inc.
+|177 %
+|<ref>{{Web citation|author=Apple Inc.|title=10-Q Q2 2023|date=2023-04-01|url=https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2023/q2/_10-Q-Q2-2023-As-Filed.pdf}}</ref>
+|2023
+|-
+|Amazon.com, Inc.
+|9.7 %
+|<ref>{{Web citation|author=Amazon.com, Inc.|title=AMZN-2023.03.31|date=2023-03-31|url=https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2023/q1/Q1-2023-Amazon-Earnings-Release.pdf}}</ref>
+|2023
+|-
+|Microsoft Corp
+|139 %
+|<ref>{{Web citation|author=Microsoft Corp|title=Microsoft 2022 Annua Report|url=https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar22/index.html}}</ref>
+|2022
+|-
+|Alphabet Inc.
+|82 %
+|<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alphabet Inc.|title=GOOG 10-Q Q1 2023|url=https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20230426_alphabet_10Q.pdf?cache=252acfb}}</ref>
+|2023
+|}
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