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Re:A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009) by ggrrhh_ta on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:06PM (#28789185)
One can legitimately (within the set of rules we give ourselves as a society) possess and earn a lot of wealth without actually creating most of that value. If all the employees - en masse - could not go any more to work, would the company still be providing that huge amount of value? Probably not. At the end of the chain there is always a group of people creating the value through work. That doesn't mean that the wealth is not legitimately earned even if that person -alone- did not create million times more value.
Re:A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009) by pitaj on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:24PM (#28790248)
Value is subjective. Wealth is not created by labor, but by mutually beneficial consensual trade.