Sure, but generally money is given to people when they do some sort of service for other people.
If you have a cook, you pay them to cook you food, and you got the money from some other place cause you performed some other service for someone else.
If you paid him to go shopping, thats because he was creating value for you (in saving you time) and you were paying him for it.
But this is different. Sure he is benefiting himself, but he isn't creating value for anyone else. The whole point of society to a certain extent to create a system which encourages people to help one another. This man is essentially getting food in exchange for shuffling papers around. What I don't understand is who else in society is benefiting from his paper shuffling.
If you have a cook, you pay them to cook you food, and you got the money from some other place cause you performed some other service for someone else.
If you paid him to go shopping, thats because he was creating value for you (in saving you time) and you were paying him for it.
But this is different. Sure he is benefiting himself, but he isn't creating value for anyone else. The whole point of society to a certain extent to create a system which encourages people to help one another. This man is essentially getting food in exchange for shuffling papers around. What I don't understand is who else in society is benefiting from his paper shuffling.