| The cost of the labour, rather than the value, is based upon the demand for that persons labour in relation to the product that labour can create, be it a shoe or something intangible like a website. When someone employs your time to do something, you are selling your labour, regardless of what the employer does with your time.
Gates sold his labour if someone bought his labour, that simple. Once Gates began creating and selling his own products, he became petty bourgeois, he invested capital and combined it heavily with his own labour. Once Gates income was predominantly based upon his capital investments in Microsoft rather than his labour investment he became bourgeois.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |