The productive product of their labor, the value added to the product. Workers assume a time risk, they contribute a portion of their lives that they can never get back. Money is much more replaceable. Some workers do have ownership responsibilities, my goal is that all do.

Most workers don't have the leverage to demand their share as there are usually more workers than jobs and fewer employers than employees. In a perfectly competitive market, that is not the case. The labor market is not pefectly competitive. It is at best monopsonistic competition and likely oligopsony.

I am not punishing the successful but am demanding that they share their success equitably, as well as their ownership stake (which can be bought out from under them so the workers own the automation.

State socialism fails. I am not proposing it. Democratic socialism does work but they never had the tools to buy out owners. They will soon. Religious orders also practice it.