But with him it is not the labourer who uses capital, but capital which uses labour. However, what he really means is that in the exchange of capital for labour the appropriation of alien labour should be reduced or that the worker should appropriate more of his own labour and capital less. The product is not transformed into capital. No surplus produce and no surplus labour exist. Only then is a nation really rich.
Time is scope for the development of man's faculties, etc.
If capital ceases to exist, then the workers will work for 6 hours only and the idlers will have to work the same amount of time. The material wealth of all would thus be depressed to the level of the workers. But all would have disposable time , that is, free time for their development. The author himself is obviously not clear about this. This means, in other words, that the greatest possible abundance of material wealth is created in the shortest possible labour time.