> It's not clear to me there was ever a time people were properly compensated for the amount of work they do. It's not a new problem. 150y ago Marx called this

> It's not clear to me there was ever a time people were properly compensated for the amount of work they do. It's not a new problem. 150y ago Marx called this exploitation of laborers the extraction of surplus value. Slavery is of course a very ancient evil. There is notably one group who are at minimum compensated for the work they do: billionaires, some of whom "earn" a million dollars per hour.