The relationship between worker and employer has created what is perhaps the most glaring disparity in the capitalist economy. Wage labor is controlled by private owners who operate trade, production, and industry with the goal of making profits. The worker's labor becomes a marketable instrument used by the owner for the accumulation of capital. Because the worker works in the service of his employer, the employer has ultimate control over both the worker's wages and assignment. Karl Marx dubbed the result of this division, alienation, or Entfremdung, which asserts the supremacy of prolificacy over the well-being of the worker. According to Marx's theory of alienation, the worker alienates himself from the object of production, from the product itself, from his autonomy in the workplace and from his fellow workers. In this excerpt from the New York Times, which discusses the distribution of capital among Google Venture employees, Bill Maris, the company's managing partner, addresses these ramifications. Maris believes that since “Google values ​​openness over hierarchy (Miller)” and ensures that its employees receive a fair salary and a fair say in deciding their task; Google Ventures workers cannot be “alienated.” However, although his reasoning encompasses Marx's theory, Marx would argue that capitalism inevitably alienates workers from their potential to realize their full humanity independent of the privileges of Google Ventures workers and would therefore disagree with Bill Maris, of which I will discuss in more detail. detail. The article states that one of the main problems of businesses is the unequal distribution of wealth. The text explains that “profits from successful investments”, known as carry, in the “vast majority… middle of paper… which create privileges, the worker is still alienated from the four aspects described in Marx's theory. I agree with Marx that workers are alienated in all four senses as long as they work for someone or something. When a human being becomes his employee, he essentially becomes the property of his employer in the workplace. Even if he works in good conditions, he must comply with the demands of those who provide him with his salary. In a modern capitalist economy, and as long as wage labor exists, alienation is absolutely inevitable. Wage labor is defined as the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, in which the worker sells his or her labor under a formal or informal employment contract. Regardless of how generous a worker's salary may be, he or she is still selling his or her labor to his or her employer and is therefore a marketable asset, even at a company like Google Ventures.