“The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.”

America did away with this agreement a long time ago...

Labor always gets it's money first, then what is left goes to the investor.

A free market is an engine of growth, that's why there are so many schemes to take a cut of every transaction. Eventually, that gunks up the engine making it cough and sputter -- that's how the powers-that-be like it.