There we shall have to agree to disagree.
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This idea of “the means of production” being like some big assembly line or something, and that this being kept out of peoples’ hands is the problem, is shown to be plainly false in the modern environment, where the “means of production” is, like, typing on a computer.
The actual main thing, that most individuals do not manage because it is hard, is *knowing what to do at any given time*. That is what gets companies to a point where they can actually produce value, and usually it is very hard to get a company there and keep it there over time.
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That knowledge is what enables the company to build a context within which everyone’s work has the value that it does. Outside that context, the value of effort becomes tremendously less because it is not coordinated.
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This is why the labor theory of value is wrong, because it is context and coordination that creates most of the value, not the actual labor per se.
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No amount of knowing what to do will help if you have no capital to begin with. Unless you are very lucky, and things align just right. But that is very rare, and not representative of what most people's lives are like.
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Knowing how to get people to give you capital (because you convince the lender they will probably get it back) is part of knowing what to do generally. And most companies have to do this, they don’t just magically have capital because they are companies.
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