a fast look – in my mind

On another forum I am discussing business with some folks and I wound up
posting this. Feel free to go

read the whole thread.

I am missing why that is inherently wrong.

I own a company. Let’s be conservative and say I work 85 hours a week.
I have employees, and let’s say one of them works 85 hours a week. Let’s
additionally say I get paid more than they do when you factor it all in…

That’s because it’s my damn company. I built it, I took the
risks, I worked all the hours before this person showed up and I will still
be here pounding on it after they have decided they want another job with
someone else.

More importantly, I had the talent and the drive to create the
company. They clearly did not or they wouldn’t be coming to me for a job. I
created that job for them, not the other way around – for that reason alone
they don’t have a claim to equal compensation.

And then let’s say that in the dim and misty future I stop working,
and because I own so much of a successful company I built I still make more
than that guy does only now I work 0 hours a week.

That sounds good to me, and fair, and ethical. I had the talent and
drive to create something >I< own. I am morally and ethically entitled to
reap the benefits of that creation. If my employee doesn’t like the
situation, they can go start a company of their own.

Then I die, and pass the company on to my son… who is wealthy for
his whole life and never has to work a day in it. That’s still fair
and correct. I created the wealth, and it is mine to do as I see fit with,
including bequeath it to my heirs.

There is a lot more to the value of ones work than how much time or
effort went into it.

Talk to ya later…