ù Quoting Ron Taylor from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
RT> Whats the point?  So you want to sit on your butt, do nothing, and 
RT> still have a "fair" share of the wealth?  It doesn't work that way 
RT> Bubba. Sure there are plenty of folks who work harder in their own 
No, I want fair compensation for the labor that I do ... let me provide an 
example for you. I used to do construction for someone who inherited a bunch 
of
tools/equipment from their uncle or something. It was a roofing and siding 
crew
doing re-sides (that is, not new work on new homes). 
So, we would go out to a site, it would be me and two other workers, and the 
boss. He would be on his cell-phone, or sitting in the truck, basically all 
day
while we did the work. And doing re-sides is not easy work, you have the 
tear-off, and the heights, and rusty nails flying at your head, etc. Me and 
my 
friend made $6/hr, and the other guy there made $8/hr. We could finish one 
job 
every two days, on average. A siding job would cost the homeowner upwards 
around $2000+, depending on how big the house ways, how many angles there 
were,
etc. In those two days, assuming we worked 8 hours each day, me and my friend 
made $96, and the other guy made $128 (before taxes). After cost of supplies 
and labor, the boss would make around $1200-2000. For each job. 
So, basically, its as if we all got together and decided to side some houses. 
One guy brought the tools and did no work, and the other guys brought their 
own
tools (hammer, prybar, belt, etc) and did all the work. The guy with the 
tools 
takes home nearly all the money from the job, and the guys who did the work 
take home only a small fraction of the money from the job.
We didn't need the boss to tell us what to do, or how to do it, we just 
needed 
his ladders, etc. So because he was lucky enough to come into around $10000+ 
worth of tools (already a good thing), he gets to become the boss and rip off 
everyone else's labor. 
Now that's just an example. This is the same relationship occurring in a 
macro 
sense everywhere. The boss - for whatever reason - has a monopoly on what you 
need, the higher you go, the more inheritance and privilege come into play. 
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