Comment by gregd
6 years ago
What I got out of the post is that the value you bring to a company, doesn't at all align with what you're actually paid, which is typical of our society.
6 years ago
What I got out of the post is that the value you bring to a company, doesn't at all align with what you're actually paid, which is typical of our society.
I think the truth is more complicated than that. The synergistic existence of the company itself is what allows each person to be able to create millions of dollars in value. And there was a risky bet made with capital to create that company in the first place, and those investors / owners / etc. making a solid risk-adjusted return on their investment hardly seems like a travesty to me.
I wish we did have more employee-owned cooperatives though. I think that's a better way to fix the inherent tension of owners vs employees.
Yup. It's almost axiomatic that you are being paid less than you are worth to your company. This is a foundational piece of the capitalist mode of production.
I wish there were more software cooperatives, or worker owned businesses out there.