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If you love your job, but hate your politicians, and your company's investors are laundering their profits through PACs to purchase said politicians, then your
by rexpop 7y ago
If you love your job, but hate your politicians, and your company's investors are laundering their profits through PACs to purchase said politicians, then your employer is—perhaps not so clearly—taking advantage of you.
And you should be paid more.
Have you ever counted out how much political money comes out of your paycheck before it reaches your house?
- sokoloff 7y agoTaxes, FICA, health insurance and other benefits paid on my behalf come out of my paycheck. What any investors or executives do with money that was never mine (aka “their profits”) is not “coming out of my paycheck.”
- rexpop 7y ago> money that was never mine is not “coming out of my paycheck.” That's a funny way of looking at it. All value originates in the labor of people like you and me. It's only an accounting trick that any of it appears to end up in others' hands.
- sokoloff 7y agoIMO, it's a more funny way of looking at it to think that money that no one ever agreed to pay me when I freely negotiated for my salary was somehow originally "mine".
- rexpop 7y agoIt's a well-known fact that most people under-negotiate.
- benchaney 7y agoThat is a bizzare POV. Labor has no inherent value on its own, it is only valuable in contexts when it can be used to benefit others. Constructing those contexts often requires capital expenditure. Labor believing that capital is unnecessary makes about as much sense as sales believing engineering is unnecessary (because we bring in all the money) or vice versa.