&gt; If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you [...]<p>That&#x27;s not quite what he&#x27;s saying.<p>From the post:<p>&gt; You can never say a price is high or low without asking, “Compared to what?”<p>He&#x27;s saying that his price can be <i>compared to</i> the value he creates, not that the price should be the same as that value. So in this case, if his price was $1M for $1M of value, then any reasonable person would say that the price is too high <i>compared to</i> the value.