[cgsmith]

Are you retired? Employees pay you for the time it takes on a job.

If you're retired then maybe you are waxing philosophically about the fleating nature of time.

[tehjoker]

Profit comes from the difference between the hours you work producing value the cover your own salary and the excess hours that go to the company. It is simple extraction like bee keepers taking honey from a colony. We're the bees.