Thanks; I’ll give this some thought. The initial conversation involved someone else arguing that the people working in Amazon warehouses deserved to be getting the money from Amazon, as opposed to Jeff Bezos, and that didn’t seem right to me, even though I couldn’t refute that the warehouse workers were doing a large percentage of the actual day-to-day work.
By thinking about it this way, I can refute with the point that work is compensated by wages, while investment is compensated by shares. Even though the warehouse workers (or stonemasons building the bridge) are doing labor, they aren’t bearing the risk of the enterprise, either monetarily (in investments that could become worthless) or personally (in years of their life “invested” in getting the enterprise started, or being the name in the headlines if it all fails).
Thanks; I’ll give this some thought. The initial conversation involved someone else arguing that the people working in Amazon warehouses deserved to be getting the money from Amazon, as opposed to Jeff Bezos, and that didn’t seem right to me, even though I couldn’t refute that the warehouse workers were doing a large percentage of the actual day-to-day work.
By thinking about it this way, I can refute with the point that work is compensated by wages, while investment is compensated by shares. Even though the warehouse workers (or stonemasons building the bridge) are doing labor, they aren’t bearing the risk of the enterprise, either monetarily (in investments that could become worthless) or personally (in years of their life “invested” in getting the enterprise started, or being the name in the headlines if it all fails).