In From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, he talks about how workers becomes object of values to monopolies. As Karl Marx wrote, “…we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities.”(651). The more a worker produces, the cheaper the objects they produce will be, but it will come at a price. The value of the worker will become less and it dehumanizes them. As they work more, the “activity of alienation”(654). also comes into play. The workers will feel estrangement and will feel like being exploited. He/she will produce more objects that provides benefits to the world, but the worker’s perspective will be opposite. What the workers produce that is seen beautiful by the world will be seen as ugly by the worker.(653).

Workers are related to the product they produce. As the workers keep producing products that are more powerful, he/she will become more alienated.(652) The product he/she produce will change how the world works. The product that are powerful will work against the workers as production of commodity will become simpler and cheaper. The “worker will become poorer”(652) as more powerful products will simplify the working world. Karl Marx compares this to religion by stating, “The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself.”(652). As the workers continue to produce more powerful and better products, it will at one point replace them. At one point the object will confront the producers as “something hostile and alien.”(652). We will become dependent on these product that the workers’ themselves created. What was a worker’s life will become the object’s life.(652).

As workers keep working, they become more like machines. Go to work, then go home and repeat. It is a cycle or a routine and he/she only follow his/her “animal instinct”.(654). It becomes more of a mean to survive as they only work only for “eating, drinking, procreating, or at most in his dwelling and in dressing-up, etc.”(654). The worker no longer “feels himself to be anything but an animal”(654) and is forced to work. In the end, the powerful will stay powerful while the weak will stay powerless. As Karl Marx wrote,” On the basis of of political economy itself … the whole of society must fall apart into two classes – the property-owners and the propertyless workers.”(651). The workers will be exploited by the property-owners as workers become property to these owners.