Read Capital. It covers this.

O - C - O'

This is the kind of nerdy Marxist humour that one can only find here

Optimus Prime is the original, we had to make do with regular Optimi after the blueprints were lost

well have you ever seen an optimus toy? i haven't

One would say he's derivative

He was constantly less than optimal, but this never stopped any commodification

No he had to make his only two factors 1 and himself

The reading group is finally paying off