er. Posted by: russell | October 00, 0000 at 00:00 AM it doesn't align with how the value is created and by whom Just as an abstract point: value is in the eye of the beholder. In matters of money, the beholder is the market. For laborers, the market is your employer, and for companies building a product, the market is the marketplace. If the marketplace is such that you can make a decent profit on your goods, then you make as much as you can. 