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Crowd fund a program to offer buy-outs of key employees in immoral enterprises. How much would it take to get half of the employees to resign?
by torpfactory 9y ago
Crowd fund a program to offer buy-outs of key employees in immoral enterprises. How much would it take to get half of the employees to resign?
- dwaltrip 9y agoMy gut reaction is that this creates a moral hazard. Social pressure seems generally more viable and robust. Perhaps something like this could work under certain limited circumstances... but I'm skeptical.
- torpfactory 9y agoCould make it available only for employees over a certain tenure at the company (to prevent a get hired, get paid scenario) and also make pay outs tied to length of time outside of those enterprises (i.e. 25% immediately, and another 25% for each of three years after you quit). Could offer incentives for people to convince their co-workers to quit en-masse (i.e., bonus payouts for getting many employees to quit an once)...
- glitcher 9y agoSounds like the Cobra Effect just waiting to happen. Besides, if the positions pay well there will be plenty of other candidates willing step in. There is no shortage of examples showing that morals are often secondary to money.
- choward 9y agoYou didn't explain how it would make the situation worse.
- zxcmx 9y agoGP was referencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Some ways this could play out would be: a) Found a startup that does $immoral_thing, wait for "payouts for everyone" to start rolling in. b) Like (a), but just invent fake employees and give them a linkedin and some social media profile. c) As an employee, keep joining immoral enterprises. I get a payday every time! So sort of a reverse incentive actually.