Your Employer Has a Fiduciary Responsibility to Financially Exploit You
Most jobs look safe because they’re built on invisible risk—yours. Every employer has a fiduciary duty to make sure you create more value than you capture. That isn’t evil; it’s the law. Here’s how to see the system clearly and start building one that works for you.
The System Wasn’t Designed for You
If you work for someone else, they have a legal duty to make sure you generate more money than you cost.
That’s not cynicism—it’s fiduciary duty, the law requiring companies to maximize profit for shareholders.
So when your employer asks for “your best work,” what they really need is your cheapest leverage: the maximum output for the minimum cost. It’s not personal; it’s structural.
The Hidden Equation
You sell hours.
They buy hours, extract surplus, and reinvest it.
That’s the model. The more value you produce per dollar of wage, the better the business performs.
And the more indispensable you become, the more incentive there is to keep you just uncomfortable enough not to leave.
Hunger keeps you obedient. Obedience keeps you billable.
How I Learned This the Hard Way
When my startup collapsed, I thought I needed stability.
I took a job. I worked like a man trying to prove he deserved to exist.
I automated my employer’s workflows. I made their system smarter—and chained myself tighter.
I called it security.
It was dependency.
Freedom Isn’t Employment; It’s Leverage
Freedom doesn’t come from quitting your job. It comes from building assets that work while you rest.
When your ideas, frameworks, and systems compound on their own, you stop being labor and start being leverage.
That’s the heart of Innovator’s Creed: turning perspective into a Sovereign OS—a creative operating system that earns for you, speaks for you, and scales your value beyond your hours.
The Three-Step Creed
- Understand the system. See where value is extracted and why.
- Design your own. Build processes that compound in your favor.
- Flip the equation. Let your creations earn while you create new ones.
You can collaborate with companies or clients—but as an owner, not an asset.
You become your own fiduciary: responsible for maximizing your surplus, your freedom.
Final Thought
You were never meant to be someone’s quarterly ROI.
You were meant to be a system of your own.
That’s the work of sovereignty—and it starts here.
→ Subscribe to Innovator’s Creed
Tags:#sovereignty #creative-independence #futureofwork #innovation #psychology #systems-thinking