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Even lame old IBM is making $244,447 in profit per employee according to this BI article: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-per-employee
by jstewartmobile 10y ago
Even lame old IBM is making $244,447 in profit per employee according to this BI article: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-per-employee-2015-10/#12-ibm-244447-per-employee-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-pe...
If we safely assume that IBM has a lot of unproductive admin staff who are collecting paychecks to surf Facebook all day, a competent and motivated developer is actually bringing a lot more than $244,447 in additional profits to the table.
That, and most "QOs" I've encountered are fronts/whitewash/greenwash/etc for larger and more malevolent concerns.
Without a major streak of luck, I think living small and setting a good example is the best any of us can reliably do.
- anon58987656553 10y agoThe article you linked is about revenue, not profits, but that doesn't really matter for the argument. I don't think you can divide $X revenue by N employees and say that therefore there must be some employee pulling in at least $X/N revenue, or at least say that in a way that matters. Imagine a hypothetical tech startup with $1 billion revenue and 10 employees. Is one developer there necessarily bringing in at least $100 million? Would you hire that developer for $50 million and consider it a deal? What if most of that $1 billion came from a single government contract with a serious conflict of interest? Anyway I think that working for a large organization at a big salary and coming out morally ahead is theoretically possible but very difficult. I don't think I'm cut out for it, myself.
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- Mz 10y agoI will suggest you figure out what you think makes a net positive contribution to the world and go do that. Go create that thing.