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However every person working in an economic concern, performs some job essential to the finished product, or otherwise they wouldn't be there. Capitalist enterprises do not pay for help they do not need. In fact, in order for any product or service to be produced, workers are necessary and would have to be paid whatever they asked, if the labor market were not almost always in excess of the jobs available, causing people to work, for what they can get. This indicates that every worker has an equivalent importance in terms of the end product. And yet as necessary as every individual component is, the wage paid can be astronomical for the owners and managers and barely a living for those at the bottom.

Rather than the wage scale being set up to benefit the many in an equitable way, it is set up so as to produce the greatest efficiency of Excess and Profit. The hierarchical system inherent in Progressive Materialism is convenient to those on top.

Those with the most advantage, will want to maintain the socially unequal economic systems, while those at the bottom may desire a more equitable process, at least unless they themselves feel capable, of arriving toward the top, or believe they have a chance of doing so. In the system of Progressive Materialism, material acquisition is the means by which the value and Consequence of the individual is established, as explained by the concept of the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative. The wealthy, as enjoying their many privileges, are not insensitive to the economic disparities. So in wanting satisfaction in their advantaged situation, and at the same time to feel good about themselves, there exists the institution of charity.

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