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You give shares to someone
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who is contributing to the enterprise.
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You can--when you set up a corporation
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there are different kinds of relationships
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that people might have with a corporation.
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One of them is as a shareholder and the shareholder gets a share--
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is entitled to a share--of the profits.
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There are also employees who get wages
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and that's very different.
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They have a labor contract that specifies how much they will get.
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Then you have debtors and other people with other relationships.
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The fundamental one is the shareholder