Financiers profiting solely from commissions embody the phantom-like unreality of imperialist capital

Evidence

They would get 50% of the royalties, I was to be content with the remaining 50%. So matters remain to this day. That company, which had not had the slightest part in the initial publication of the book – and has never raised a finger to promote it, or either of the subsequent ones which fell into their hands – is still reaping, via the paperback editions, the benefit of John Lehmann’s flair and foresight. — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 55 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperialism abandons capitalist equality when specific investment profits are secured; Pious and commercial motives fused in the Portuguese imperial venture; State intervention in capitalism grows from saver flight toward guaranteed returns (+7 more)

Related

• Publishing contracts let uninvolved firms permanently profit from another’s original risk (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Overaccumulated wealth drove imperialism by enlisting an unprincipled surplus mob #corroborates (0.85)
• Imperialism abandons capitalist equality when specific investment profits are secured #corroborates (0.82)
• Publishing contracts let uninvolved firms permanently profit from another’s original risk #exemplifies (0.80) — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 55
• State intervention in capitalism grows from saver flight toward guaranteed returns #corroborates (0.78)
• Prestige-priced shops reveal money as the supreme value through denial #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 458
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production #expands (0.74)
• Pious and commercial motives fused in the Portuguese imperial venture #exemplifies (0.72)