I would go further. My clients&#x27; money is their money. As it&#x27;s their money, they can do what they want with it. If they choose to give it to me, it&#x27;s know my money.<p>Similarly, if you have a job, the money your employer gives you is now your money. If you have a business, the money your customers give you is now your money.<p>It&#x27;s true that someone making £60k a year probably works harder, with more responsibility, and has invested more up-front in their own skills than someone making £20k a year. However this shouldn&#x27;t be used as the <i>justification</i> for their higher salary; the justification has to be that freedom and property rights are inviolate principles.<p>If you cede those principles -- e.g., by conceding that hedge fund traders and CEOs cannot possibly be &quot;worth&quot; their high salaries, and so they should not be permitted their salaries, and so they and their employers do not have a right to their own money -- you effectively give free reign to the government to interfere with any economic transaction in the name of &quot;fairness&quot; or &quot;justice&quot;.