I agree with you, but there are many who believe that a person has a right to a job, and that it is fundamentally unfair for one person to have a job that is better than another. They also believe that basing employment on merit is an anti-pattern, and that it is not fair that some people have educational and employment opportunities that others do not have, purely as a result of their parent and/or birth situation. I worked with a guy who would argue that the entire society should reap the reward because without the provisions from society (roads, structure, etc) the business would not be possible.