Land owners decided that they should decide everything long ago, in a decision that was widely supported by the ensuing generation’s of powerful land owners, and so ownership became the most valuable thing possible. Fast forward to the age of shareholders and mega corporations and well yeah we’re doomed.
It’s not a coincedence that sweat shop labor is both the hardest and least paid work on the planet at the same time. That’s what an honest days work gets you in this world. The secret to success is to be born to rich owner class parents. And what do you know! All the people who matter agree with this system.