We must not fall into the lazy thinking that if people are paid lots, they'll work hard. People should be paid lots if they work hard, and that's just common sense. I recently offered to split any profit I made with my employees. The only catch was that they would be OK to split the losses as well, including the loan I had to take out during lockdown in order to pay rent, rates, and other fixed costs businesses had to pay so their employees would have a job to come back to after they were well looked after by the Government. They declined my offer. The assumption that businesses can just keep on absorbing extra costs is naive and unrealistic. Productivity must increase at least at the same rate, and this can't be ignored when striving for better conditions and more money for employees. It is time to end the ideological dogma that business owners are somehow the enemy. US President Thomas Jefferson once said, "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Jobs build self-esteem, self-reliance, and purpose. We must stop the tailspin of welfare dependency and that sense of sitting outside the community that flows from it.