No employer is going to hire someone who produces just as much as they get paid. In capitalism that just doesn't make sense. And that is the precise thing that has cause our present situation: an employer who gets rich by taking from the employees. It never made sense to me until I realize there is a better way. Get rid of the boss. We all become employees and employers at the same time. We then get to keep what we earn.
There's a lot of effort and ideas that need to go into this. It's not fully thought out even yet. Who gets how much, and so on.
Even rock and roll stars are on this capitalist road. Look at all the super rich rock stars with jets and copters and chateaus. That money came from somewhere. It starts to get scary to look at the details, but when we just stop and ask who is getting ripped off, then we can start to solve the problem. You don't see any janitors who cleaned up after the shows riding around in their own limousines. But that's a bit far down the road. We aren't even on the road yet.
Thank goodness for Bernie. Oh, and one more thing: this is the reason (even as it is an unconscious one) why we are going to see votes for Bernie coming from not just the liberal minded, but from the right. That reason is, we've all been ripped off, right and left alike.