Merit

The cake

Privilege

Bottom line

"If the company earns more, we will be able to pay more to our workers!"

"How will the company earn more?"

"We will pay less to our workers."

Hard work

"That's true. I'm living large. I don't apologize for anything, though. What I have, I earn it with my work."

"You don't work! You only show up at your business to collect the profits. Your employees do everything."

"And I pay them for that, don't I? I buy their work, so it's MY work! MINE!

Work

"Be advised, sir, that this company considers hard work to be something that lifts and ennobles the human creature, and we are not willing to debase and corrupt such a precious thing by offering for it something as lowly as money."

Labor policy

"But, Mr. inspector... I have five hundred employees! If I have to give every one of them a paycheck, I'll go out of business and they'll all be jobless! Is that what the state wants? Generate unemployment?"

Interventionism

"We demand that the government stop interfering with our commercial activities, which create thousands of jobs! They should instead devote their efforts to isolate malaria patients in order to protect our children from this frightful disease that keeps spreading unchecked!"

"That's right!"

"Bravo!"

"Well said!"

ANOPHELES BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Robotics

"The key to our commercial success is that our industrial robots are shaped after a human worker."

"Doesn't that make them less efficient?"

"Yes, but it also makes yelling at them and mistreating them more personally fulfulling."

Public administration

"Huh? Are you really voting for this guy?"

"He's a successful businessman. If he runs the country as he manages his companies, we'll really pull through."

"These are hard times and sacrifices must be made if our nation is to weather this crisis. Thirty percent of the population will be laid off by the end of the month."