I'm pretty sure everyone will read this as "Help ! My little wage slaves are not giving their maximum effort to me and instead putting it towards an effort tha

I'm pretty sure everyone will read this as "Help ! My little wage slaves are not giving their maximum effort to me and instead putting it towards an effort that might at some point make them independent from me. This means I have less absolute control over them and they only do as good as I can reasonably expect them to do, instead of working their ass of to get me more money without any advantage to themselves." Dear employers, you pay your people $x to do at least <y> effort. If y => y' does not translate into $x => $x' in a predictable and fair manner, you have no cause for complaints.