By natural Economic law all Wealth in Distribution goes to Wages as compensation to Labor, up to the point at which differences in the desirable qualities or locations (or both) of particular portions of Land disclose relatively high and low opportunities for Production. In those circumstances Wages for production on the superior Land would be higher--a larger product of Wealth--than for the same Labor-power expended on inferior Land. Consequently another natural law of Economics becomes manifest. Rent for superior Natural Resources arises. It is the difference between Labor productiveness on the poorest Land in use and the productiveness of equal Labor-power on better Land. Thus Rent has a place along with Wages in the primary Distribution of Wealth. This Economic phenomenon is to be more definitely described farther on. Meanwhile the phenomenon of Wages commands our principal attention. So long as Land freely offers equal opportunities for Production, the category of Wages comprehends the whole product of Labor. It is only as variations in the desirability of particular kinds and locations of Land play a part in Production that Wages as a whole are distinguished from total product. In those circumstances, however, the Wages category embraces the entire Product less Rent for superior Land. It is not to be inferred, though, that deductions for Rent necessarily reduce Wages as a quantity. In normal circumstances the fact is the reverse of that. Although Rent reduces the proportion of Wages to Wealth it does not necessarily reduce the aggregate of Wages. On the contrary, Wages may be more in quantity when normal Rent is deducted from aggregate Wealth than before Rent arises. The reason is that Rent takes of Wealth only a surplus which is measured by degrees of superiority of the better over the poorest Land in demand. Subject, then, to normal in contradistinction to arbitrary deductions for Rent, the Wages allocation of Wealth is assignable to earners in the Labor category in shares approximately proportionate to the desirability of their respective services. Subsidiary classifications of Wages are identified by more or less descriptive terms for colloquial convenience and private accounting purposes. Among these terms are “salaries,” “commissions,” “profits,” “fees,” “labor costs,” and “dividends.” All of them are doubtless convenient for keeping track of private business or other personal details; nor are they objectionable for Economic research provided they be not considered as primary or fundamental.