But if you are thinking of the ‘bills’ of the individual (what can a Worker take home to feed his family), then you are talking about Wage, which is ALSO calculated as a Cost.

So Profit never need be collected by Owners, but should only be treated as Consumer Growth by investing it as shares of Ownership in that same corporation for that very same Consumer. In this way the business becomes a public utility Owned by every Consumer in direct proportion to the amount each is willing to pay above Cost.

The separate question of how a Worker can collect a Wage from Consumers willing to pay for new work is mostly a matter of contracting with those Consumers _before_ performing the work. The solution to how programmers can “make money” from Free Software is to discover what the Consumers want that is not already accomplished, and then to have those consumers somehow ‘commit’ to payment for delivery of those change before the Worker performs the act (or at least before he releases his private modifications).