Ivor:

If a man agrees to work for $20.00 an hour, and does so, finds it pleasant enough, makes friends in the workplace, and so on, is paid according to his agreement, then where is it exactly that you think he is being stolen from. It should be obvious to you that ANY product is produced uphill, against the tide of entropy and error. So if all the value of that product in the final market is allocated back to each person according to his time, or his skill, or some such scheme, then the viability of the group is severely at risk. One unpredicted event and boom.

I work for a man who founded a tech company on the sweat of his own invention and grew it carefully. He makes a lot more than I do. He has been taking the major risk of the company and the burden of organizing and keeping itproductive and on a postive course for twenty years. Yet you seem to think he is stealing from me because he gets a larger share of the salary total than I do. I think that's silly. My deal with him is one that he and I entered into voluntarily and we are both keeping the agreement. If I want to make more I can go elsewhere. Where a similar equation will obtain.

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