Fundamentally, Economic Distribution is a twofold apportionment of the Wealth produced by Labor from and upon Land, whereby one portion is naturally allocated to Labor as its producer and the other to Land-ownership as the controller of Natural Resources and sites. Presumably, then, as Production of Wealth has two Basic factors--in technical terms Labor and Land, in other terms Man and Natural Resources--so Distribution of Wealth has two basic apportionments, one corresponding to the Labor or Man factor in Production, the other to the Land or Natural Resource factor--Wages for Labor, Rent for permission to use Land. That there can be neither Wages for Labor nor Rent for Land unless Wealth has been produced, is a manifest law of nature. The nonexistent being naturally indivisible, Production of Wealth must precede Distribution of Wealth. Inasmuch, then, as Labor produces all Wealth and without Labor no Wealth is or can be produced, some Wealth must naturally be distributed or allocated to Labor as Wages before any can be distributed or allocated to Land-ownership as Rent. Consequently, the Wages allocation of Wealth demands consideration first. I. WAGES FOR LABOR As with many another abuse of technical Economic terms, so colloquial and business interpretations have distorted the significance of the technical term Wages. Even Economic teachers allow their imaginations to glide away from the comprehensive significance of this technical term much as they do from its corresponding technical term Labor. All too readily does conventional Economic thought, when considering Wages, center upon the compensation which “shirt-sleeve” classes of hired men bargain for, “salaries” taking the place of “wages” when “white collar” workers cross the business line of vision. Still more select levels of Labor are compensated with “fees,” “commissions,” or “profits.” To thinking students, however, students of Economics who recognize Economics as a science subject to natural law rather than a grouping of arbitrary business customs--to such students all special or mere conventional kinds of compensation for human service assemble themselves naturally in the same fundamental category, and for clarity of thought are always distinguished by the same technical term. What the term for natural compensation out of human production for human service in aid of production might better be, is of no importance provided the term be treated distinctively. For Labor compensation out of Labor-produced Wealth, Wages if treated distinctively is an appropriate term, and its long time comprehensive use in Economics entitles it to preference. Wages, then, the technical term in Economic science for that natural allocation of some Wealth to Labor, which produces all Wealth, demands primary consideration in any study of the Economic phenomena of Wealth Distribution.