To your edit
You really don't see how what you mean is a dystopian way of thinking? Who fucking cares about what the owner has to pay when the money he is using to pay for it is being generated by the labor of the workers? Instead of the profits from their labor going to improve their working conditions, they are being stolen by an owner who is exploiting their labor for his own personal enrichment. Do you not understand how that is exploitative and dystopian?