@Amikke @moffintosh well VCs and usury in general is the definition of getting paid because you already have money. hatred of that goes all the way to biblical times (throwing over the money lender tables for using pilgrimages as a source of business, etc.)

there is no real perspective where usurist is respectable. you are allowing someone else to borrow your risk-taking permission (money) in exchange for the same thing you're offering. the usurist inputs nothing, but owns everything.

other jobs .. it's not really that simple. commies tend to be lifelong wagies butthurt that management makes more than stock boys. i keep talking to them on occasion to find smart ones--they just say dumb shit like "raise taxes," they don't actually have the wherewithal to figure out how to feed the school children for free.

i used to hate business a bit more than i do now until i came to that realization. the company takes the bigger share because they are offering employees a unique service: they regularize the wages, and access to work.

anyone who has done freelance work will know, intimately, the market doesn't pay you a weekly salary and doesn't give you jobs every day. your company does that. they regularize the irregular incomes and protect you from refunds and lawsuits and you still draw a paycheck even if the company made no money that week.

this is an abstract thing most people probably never think about, because most people don't do anything or aspire to anything other than wage.