He has no idea how a business works. Like all marxists, he thinks that businesses are run by the rich and employ the poor, which they exploit.
Reality: A business can’t afford to pay an employee more than he/she earns for the company.
Your comment reminds me of a personal situation years ago. I was out of university a few years when I went to work for a national/international company as a specialist project engineer. I had been doing creditable work for a while when I was called in by the chief of technical operations for a performance review. I was asked what my goal was as to my job. I responded I wanted to have my performance result in gain for the company to be double the amount that I was being paid. The reviewing person was really taken back by my remark. In this day and age I believe many if not most employees believe they should be paid for just being ‘on the job’.