"But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins (if it fight for treasure or land;) neither, because you are a king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

John Ruskin, Traffic, 1866.