As Marx showed, people are already owned by capital prior to the market transaction, which reveals nothing but hides the underlying social relation. And so we are having this ridiculous debate about who is chosen by capital for a particular position in the service of capital. Actually as Marx showed the cost of a commodity is determined by socially necessary labour time. Capital pays out in wages the minimum cost of maintenance and reproduction of the worker at a given level of civilisation, so as women entered the workforce real wages tended to be halved in consequence, according to the reasoning Marx has given us.
It is the role of the capitalist state to prohibit the organisation of labour, and to ensure an oversupply of compliant labour with the necessary skills to be used as an ancillary tool in the service of capital. Because society belongs to capital. That is the way the law has been set up. People belong to capital.
