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Obviously the solution here is for workers to also become shareholders.
by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Obviously the solution here is for workers to also become shareholders.
- cool_dude85 3mo agoThe US has historically been quite opposed to the workers becoming shareholders.
- FloorEgg 3mo agoExcept for all the companies that issue shares and options as part of employee compensation.
- winfredJa 3mo agothis is mostly in tech. starbucks barista is not going to get any stocks
- charcircuit 3mo agoThe barista can buy $SBUX every payday. The inverse of sell on vest.
- BJones12 3mo agoStarbucks sells its stock to its baristas at a 5% discount every 90 days through payroll deductions. https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/stock-investment-plan-sip/ https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/s...
- izacus 3mo agoNone of those gives voting shares to employees.
- CuriouslyC 3mo agoMore accurate to say that the US has been opposed to workers controlling the firms they work for. But the capitalists dangling just enough of a morsel to get the workers to dance 80 hours a week, but without the ability to actually control anything, and without majorly diluting? Chef's kiss.
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- AngryData 3mo agoOnly if you call it socialism or communism. Otherwise Americans like co-op businesses and employee shares.
- banannaise 3mo agoBit of a double-edged sword, that. Worker-owned businesses are great, but if you instead make workers minority shareholders, you get... the modern retirement system, and inflated asset prices that benefit the ultra-wealthy far more than common investors.
- quickthrowman 3mo agoThis is the position I am in, I work at an ESOP company and it’s been quite lucrative to be an employee owner.