Absolutely. If you can sell a $1000 item that costs $10 to make, you should deserve the profit. You paid a worker a fair wage (without coercion, otherwise that'd be slavery) and you solved an important problem for the customer. The problem for the customer was so severe that they couldn't find a solution and would pay you $1000. It was worth more to the customer than $1000 or they'd not pay for it. Through fair trade, you made value on customer side and on employee side. Doing anything else, like giving undeserved additional bonus to the employee is unjust and unfair. Or giving a discount to the customer would be unjust to yourself.
If the employee had anything to do with sales and marketing a $1000 thing, they should deserve a proportional cut. If they were simply emptying garbage cans in your office, then they should too get a fair and just wage that is proportional to the value they provide.
You could counter with unfair trade and I'd agree with you. Crony capitalism is not what I am referring to. Nor am I referring to anywhere coercion or force is used.
> If you can sell a $1000 item that costs $10 to make, you should deserve the profit.
Why are you viewing it like that, and not "if you can make a $1000 pie for $20 worth of materials, you deserve the profit"? What if the worker could have sold the pie directly for $900, but wasn't given the opportunity because they couldn't access the $10 of materials for whatever reason?
By what possible reason are you putting the entire profit on the person contracting the work?
> What if the worker could have sold the pie directly for $900
I'd be the first one to suppor that! Absolutely. Go for it. Workers should bypass middlemen if they don't add any value. They have the moral right to act in their self interest. Not only is this important, but it is necessary. Tesla going direct sales by bypassing Dealerships? Best thing ever. Everyone benefits. We see that all the time and it is a feature of a healthy capitalist society.
However, if the middlemen actually add value and there is a moat through IP, capital, assets or salesmanship, etc; they absolutely deserve the wealth they generate. Interfering in anyway here is asking for a bleak society where productivity plummets, enterprise is lost and there is no innovation. We're seeing this in certain industries with heavy regulation.
Undeserved middlemen that clog up the economy should be overthrown and eliminated through means of enterprise. Not through regulation.
Sometimes I wonder if we're on a startup forum. I hope we have some overlap in agreement. I would encourage you to study examples of how economic freedom benefits all and how it has led to unparalleled progress and lifting people out of poverty. And also how collectivist, use of force and coercion, regulations, marxist ideas, lead to increase in poverty. (Cambodia, NK vs. SK, Hong Kong and Taiwan, 19th century and mid 20th century USA, West vs East Germany, the fall of USSR, stagnancy of Cuban economy, etc).
If the employee had anything to do with sales and marketing a $1000 thing, they should deserve a proportional cut. If they were simply emptying garbage cans in your office, then they should too get a fair and just wage that is proportional to the value they provide.
You could counter with unfair trade and I'd agree with you. Crony capitalism is not what I am referring to. Nor am I referring to anywhere coercion or force is used.