Labor is a part of cost, all labor included. Most people complain if I don’t include labor because they believe with no profit the “owners” make zero money. Which is educated and self employed people like ourselves know these things but not everyone does.

If your goal is to reify something called capitalism and blame it. Go ahead, but it doesn't mean anything. That's just ideological programming. If you want to engage in real terms, but ideological checkers is boring and will never solve anything or get you closer to the truth.

Arguing over maps while ignoring the territory is pointless.

Is there a point you'd like to address that you can express in non-ideological terms?