The job is not owned by the employee.

It's a good argument, the employee should be thankful for a good employer, and visa versa, but if the job really was created and funded by a company, shouldn't they own it?

Yes, simplistically speaking, how dare a worker demand his job?

Governments are owned and, in a very theoretical way, controlled by the populance. It is ours, it represents us, whatever it does is our collective fault. Companies are also represented, but they don't get to vote, but BOY do they get to have a voice. This brings me to my point, taking the company I work for, they get huge wads of dollars from Governments to employ research staff, apprentices (although that's stopped), etc, as well as tax breaks of about 50% less in the dollar than the population, and theres also spontaneous donations, the Treasurer and Premier visited at one point to announce to the cameras they were giving the company... more money, as long as it employed 25 odd more people. It did. Then after a few months they got the collective arse. Free dollars and a scammed Government.

This brings me to my real point, if my tax dollars are given to this company, so that it may employ me, does that mean that I have, in a sense, paid for my job? Does that mean in some way that I 'own' my job? If I lose my job, that's fine, but can I have my taxes back? Alternatively, if you subscribe to the idea that a job is the sole ownership of a business, can business not be allowed any tax breaks, or any Government funding, so we can separate the two? Hoo-hooooooo, I don't think that's gonna happen.