Not sure if that guy is trolling or not, but you don't seem to be, so to answer that question you aren't who Engels and Marx were referring to in the communist manifesto. If you invent something, you could sell your invention, either in the form of plans which do take labor or for actual builds of that invention (also taking labor), that's you being rewarded. But Marxists also (usually) don't believe in intellectual property - it's not very intuitive but the idea here is if you trace any novel invention's steps leading up to it, it is never the product of one person but of society as a whole. An inventor consumes media, sees problems in society, may be educated by a lot of different people, essentially given the seeds for their novel invention from the rest of their society. What you then shouldn't be able to do with your invention is skim off the top of everybody who ever builds your invention or uses your invention, just by virtue of having invented it without having to actually put in any additional labor. And what somebody else in general shouldn't be able to do is give someone else money to build your invention on their land, and skim off the top of everybody who ever uses it.
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