[hildolfr]

Google feeds staff members and provides rest areas , why are they paid?

[Reasoning]

If my employer payed for my housing and food I would not consider it unreasonable that my paycheck reflected that.

> Why are they paid

Because people have expenses other than food and lodging. Prisoners do to, some save money for after they leave prison others spend it at the commissary.

[Ray20]

For not going to work for competitors.

[borski]

The government takes a cut then too, both from the employer and employer, in the form of taxes.

[kgwxd]

Which should be paying for the prisons and the operations society approves of to reform inmates. Prisons should not be a businesses of any kind.