If investments were financed entirely out of retained earnings or default less bounds, shares in value added would in fact be levered shares of stock. An economy where these shares are held exclusively by the workers of a firm and cannot be traded is a more constrained version of the stock market economy. Workers would have to bear all the risks associated with their production activity. Meade (1972, p. 426) recognizes this problem in the following terms: “While property owners can spread their risks by putting small bits of their property into a large number of concerns, a worker cannot put small bits of his effort into a large number of different jobs. This presumably is a main reason why we find risk-bearing capital hiring labour rather than risk-bearing labour hiring capital.”