How many of your excellent burgers can you personally produce?
At some point you will have to hire others to help you become rich.
Will you pay your workers the full value of what they produce, or will you resort to exploitation?
Will you franchise your restaurants on Wall Street?
Where do those speculators get their wealth?
Do you hope to become a billionaire?
Yes, you hire labor to make those millions of burgers every year. What's your point? That's how jobs are created in the first place. When you open up a business, you are the one that has to take your own money to create it. You have to buy or lease the building, the vehicles, the production equipment, retrofit the building to your industry, get all the office equipment. If successful (which many businesses are not) your income is determined by how much of your product you can produce and sell. Why should employees share in your profits? They didn't take any risks. It's not their money that opened up the business.
Employees don't make money on the product they manufacture. They are paid a weekly or monthly salary, or work per hour regardless how much or little the company produces. If you want to get paid by how much you produce, you can get a job that pays piece work, or you can get a job as a salesman where you make commission based on how much you sell. If you want to share in company profits, you can try to find a job that has profit sharing as a benefit. If you can't find a job that offers that benefit, you can buy stock in the company you work for. The options are all yours.
There is no exploitation when two people make a business agreement. I have a job, the job pays X amount of money, you apply for the job, and if I call you to take that job, you have the ability to accept or decline. How is the value of your labor determined? You are worth as much as your employer can pay somebody else to do the same job and same quality of work that you do. No more, no less.
If you do a job anybody can do, it pays low wages. Why? Because your employer can easily find somebody else to do that job for low wages. If you have a skill or trade, you make better money. Why? Because there are many less people who have that skill or trade. Your employer will not be able to replace you with somebody that is willing to work for piss poor money. If you get into a profession like an engineer or accountant, you make better money than the skilled or trade workers, because there are many less of them than the skilled workers.
Like your employer, speculators make their money by investing into a product or company. These are not privileged people. You can become a speculator anytime you want. I spent a couple of years in the commodities market, and I had the time of my life. In the end I ended up losing, but what a rush buying and selling contracts. I lost money in the end, but what fun I had doing it. Do I hope to become a billionaire? Hell, I'd be happy just being a millionaire.
