Tired: it's not possible to "earn" a billion dollars through accumulated capital.
Wired: it's not possible for a product manager at Apple to "earn" thirty times the pay of someone mining lithium for batteries in Zimbabwe.
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution.
What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive…
