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// I make around 600k ... Still, I capture only a fraction of the value I generate for my employer. There seems to be a two way street here. Presumably if you
by xyzelement 3y ago
// I make around 600k ... Still, I capture only a fraction of the value I generate for my employer.
There seems to be a two way street here. Presumably if you could make 600K or more by yourself, you'd be doing that rather than working for your employer.
Your employer, likely way before you got there, created an environment where you could come in and earn this much. If they and companies of that profile didn't exist, would you have a place to earn even 200K? So maybe you actually are splitting the value you are generating half-way.
- UncleMeat 3y agoThe other people working for my employer created that environment. The shareholders who own pieces of it didn't do that.
- xyzelement 3y agoWould you agree at least that the founders and initial employees took on the most risk and did the bulk of the heavy lift to get the company to that place? EG does the proverbial guy who ran the company out of his garage for 5 years funding it on his credit card deserve outsized reward for the risk and work he put in?
- loco5niner 3y agoYes, but the way shares work is that someone paid either the original founders or the company itself for a share, then someone paid that person, and so on. The current shareholders are certainly profiting, but they exist only because the company needed them to exist in order to create the company as it is now.
- WalterBright 3y agoThe shareholders literally provided the cash to get the company started and sustained until it was profitable.