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would you accept $50 bonus and $1 to each of your 450 covorkers if you were set to receive $500 bonus instead?

• sverhagen 9y ago
  Interesting how that question is phrased. Would you accept $50 (million dollar)? Hell yeah. What would you choose between $50 and $500. Maybe $500, not sure if I could live with myself, but I can see how some people would. But why is $500 even on the table? Why isn't someone (a board, a shareholders' meeting) telling this guy: $50 (million) should be enough.
  • elvirs 9y ago
    because that bonus is based on how much he saved or made for that company. he/she must have saved/made the company at least 3 times as much and was promised the bonus by that same board if he achieves the goal. board does not gift him the bonus, board owes him.
• jdavila90 9y ago
  the fact that you think 50 dollars and 50 million are equivalent...
• cialowicz 9y ago
  That's not really a valid comparison. The real-world difference between $50 and $500 is much greater than the real-world difference between $50,000,000 and $500,000,000. $450 to most of the population is a meaningful amount that could help pay rent/mortgate, buy food, pay for daycare, etc. $450,000,000 to someone who already has $50,000,000 just means stepping up to a megayacht. Perhaps a more apt analogy would be the following: Would you be happy if you Product Manager at work got a bonus of 10,000 times your salary for managing a wildly successful and profitable project to completion when you and your coworkers did most of the grunt work?