Comment by techslave

> In other words, companies either purposefully or absentmindedly fail to pay regular employees anywhere close to their real value.

Purposefully. your comment is spot on, so i’m surprised you don’t get this aspect. It’s not the burden of companies (in capitalistic society) to pay employees their value. Companies are practically obligated to extract maximum value at the most competitive (ie, market) rate. And after all, you might do the exact same job at Google as you do at tinyCO but because it’s google (network effect and all that) you just arbitrarily happen to have more impact. You aren’t actually bringing that value.

If employees want to be paid for their value, they can take all their otherwise excess income and join the capitalists by buying the stock.