>>511989630It was never the case.
You don't earn shit.
System forces your employer to pay (and he hates you for it and does everything he can to get rid of you).
A world were people willingly exchange goods and services in harmony is an utopian fairy tale.
In (more) natural circumstances the more powerful group simply enslaves the other.
In the past what we would call an employment contract was a rarity reserved for the best craftsmen and artisans who also happened to enjoy systemic protections preventing them from being put into slavery.