And is that right? Is that how it should be?

I will partake in the taking because ultimately the world is PvP now and doing otherwise would disadvantage myself against those who would. But I will not support such a system.

At least your example can be somewhat justified - one kind of work takes a lot more skill (both natural and learned) than the other and the difference in reward is within the same order of magnitude.

But then there are jobs which produce no real value on their own. They basically take a cut from everyone else's work. And those are parasitic. Ironically those jobs also tend to determine everyone's wage.

Their real value would be determined by inverting the power structure - the people doing actual work would hire these assistants ("managers" or "executives") to make them more productive if it was needed and would pay them how much their work is actually valued.

> a few large IP owners

This implicitly assumes IP should be allowed to be bough. In a fair system, it would always belong to the people who actually produced it. If a large corporation wanted to make money off of it, it would have to convince these people and offer then terms they would agree with.