At the end of the 19th century, Big Bill Haywood, one of the founders of the US‘s first industrial union, made a succinct point about the paradoxes of the labour market: „The barbarous gold barons do not find the gold, they do not mine the gold, they do not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belongs to them.“

More than a hundred years on, the modern equivalent of the gold barons are still getting away with it. Evidence of this alchemy is everywhere.