Honestly I’d need more data. What did the family make annually relative to the non-family workers, etc.
That said, I wouldn’t consider them the primary villains, possibly more symptomic of a larger problem. Kind of a when in Rome situation of “well I have enough capital to start something small, and I won’t exploit my workers as badly as faceless corporations, which makes me good by comparison” kind of thing.
I don’t believe the people that throw money from previous capital gains at a proposal to build the means of production deserve as much back as the people that LABOR day in and day out to run those Machines and produce value from them, let alone orders of magnitude more than the laborers as they do.
I think being a business owner/investor should mean getting a tiny cut of the final net profits, most of which goes to the people whose blood, sweat, and time they’d rather be spending elsewhere produced widgets of value that society wanted.
So no, if your family payed anyone who wasn’t family less than family despite them running or accounting or whatever their role was harder than your family LABORED, merely because the family owns/leases the building and machines, the worker deserved more of the net profits than your family on the projects they labored on. Not Bezos evil, but not right either.
I think it’s deeply, deeply wrong for someone to just throw money they got from god knows where and who they hurt to get it at a potential profitable business, walk away and not be part of building it using their own hands and headaches, and then expect not only a lot, but most of the net profits. It’s perverse that our society rewards such activity and punishes doing the work by comparison.
Honestly I’d need more data. What did the family make annually relative to the non-family workers, etc.
That said, I wouldn’t consider them the primary villains, possibly more symptomic of a larger problem. Kind of a when in Rome situation of “well I have enough capital to start something small, and I won’t exploit my workers as badly as faceless corporations, which makes me good by comparison” kind of thing.
I don’t believe the people that throw money from previous capital gains at a proposal to build the means of production deserve as much back as the people that LABOR day in and day out to run those Machines and produce value from them, let alone orders of magnitude more than the laborers as they do.
I think being a business owner/investor should mean getting a tiny cut of the final net profits, most of which goes to the people whose blood, sweat, and time they’d rather be spending elsewhere produced widgets of value that society wanted.
So no, if your family payed anyone who wasn’t family less than family despite them running or accounting or whatever their role was harder than your family LABORED, merely because the family owns/leases the building and machines, the worker deserved more of the net profits than your family on the projects they labored on. Not Bezos evil, but not right either.
I think it’s deeply, deeply wrong for someone to just throw money they got from god knows where and who they hurt to get it at a potential profitable business, walk away and not be part of building it using their own hands and headaches, and then expect not only a lot, but most of the net profits. It’s perverse that our society rewards such activity and punishes doing the work by comparison.