content: the employer is keeping the value generated by the employees and that's unfair. how much would that employee make per hour selling burgers if he was plopped down into an empty piece of land? 0. He couldn't sell burgers if he didn't have a building and a kitchen and client base and hamburger meat and condiments and buns and electricity, etc. etc. etc.  Well, if the employer can make $20/hr selling an employee's burgers, clearly the employee is generating $20/hr in value. As the productivity of an employee goes up, so too his generated value goes up. Why shouldn't the employee receive compensation in line with his increased value? The employer cannot generate value without employees, so why is he entitled to profit by undervaluing employees? You argue that providing facilities to increase workers' productivity justifies undervaluing one's employees, but again, those facilities are worthless without the employee generating value. Clearly there needs to be a balance between employer profit and employee profit.