[NeverFade]

> Wages are not downstream of profits - they are a price in a market for labor.

That is correct, and a point many in this discussion miss.

> It's better this way - otherwise employees at companies that make no money would have to take no salary.

Not so fast. For one, companies that "make no money" eventually go bankrupt and pay nothing to nobody.

It's not "better" or "worse", paying what the market requires is simply the way things are in a free market.