Something cool to note: a smart wage earner gets more out of the company he works for than the company gets out of him.
This obviously isn't true. If an employee gets more out of the business than vice versa, then the business is destined to fail. Or, at the very least, a company can only afford to employ a small amount of "smart wager earners", as you put it. In the vast majority of cases, the labour is worth more than the wage; it must be for the company to thrive.