Originally Posted by
Snarge
No, I just think my labor and it's worth should be owned by me. And a percentage of it not go to others who have not earned it. So the next question, did the CEO earn the percentage he took from my labor?
Or said differently, should I be able to, at a minimum, determine the terms in which my labor is used in exchange for value?
Even slaves have the choice to quit.
No offense but you have made a grave intellectual error. Slaves DO NOT have the choice to quit. This is entirely what being a slave means.
If you engauge in a voluntary exchange of your labour with your "CEO" your "CEO" can keep whatever he wants. That is because he has a higher risk value than you have, he is your boss. That is why he is the CEO and you are the employee. If you decide that is unfair and you are not getting paid enough than quit. Because you are not a slave means that you can do so and go find employment somewhere else.
Or take a risk and start your own business and be the CEO.
The limitation on how much or little you can pay your employees is dictated by competition in the labor workforce for wages. Employees drive prices up and bosses drive them down. In a free society with a limited government both are winners in their own ways dictated by their risk/reward ratio they CHOOSE to have.