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It's unbalanced. There's really no good reason why management should be getting orders of magnitude more profits than the employees just for being there first.
by archagon 11y ago
It's unbalanced. There's really no good reason why management should be getting orders of magnitude more profits than the employees just for being there first.
I think the cooperative model[1] should really be the natural order of things. Too bad it's not very common, especially in software.
[1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
- TillE 11y agoIn this case, "management" (ie, Markus and one or two others) has done 95% of the work of making and selling a hugely successful product. Everyone else was brought on later for support and maintenance. People are talking about startups, but this is nothing remotely like a typical startup scenario.
- archagon 11y agoThey made the initial product, but it sounds like they hadn't done much of the work in a few years. And 5% of billions would still be a lot.