If you're going to do the crime, you should get the dime

Throughout the upswing, mewling leftists complained about the unwillingness of corporations to share the benefits of increased productivity. However, if the profits generated during the last period were almost entirely specious, and the role of the "employees" was to be a distraction while the con men in charge of those organizations looted banks and shareholder value, then it is quite possible that the "workers" were quite fairly paid for their "work", since the engine of profitability was dissembling and fraud.