[bradlys]

In a capitalist market, it is explicitly not proportional to the amount of value you provide. That is the underlaying principle of capitalism…

Read up a bit, man. Even a capitalist would agree with this.

[paulcole]

I can assure you it is.

You get paid X. You deliver Y value. The proportion is X / Y. Sometimes that proportion is very high, sometimes it is very low. Sometimes it is negative. Sometimes you get a divide by zero error.

And again, the questions.

What specific proportion do you think is fair? And how do you calculate the value you provide?

[fwip]

I don't think you understand what "proportional" means. It doesn't mean "there are two numbers."

It means that when looking at all employees, compensation is strongly linearly correlated to provided value.

[paulcole]

What specific linear correlation do you think is fair? And how do you calculate the value you provide?

[try_the_bass]

That's literally what "proportional" means.

[bradlys]

Jesus Christ. That’s not how it works!

Capitalism is explicitly not about that. Holy shit this is insane that you think that’s how capitalism works on a website that’s literally about venture capital. What the fuck.

[paulcole]

X and Y exist right? Why can’t you divide them to make a proportion?

[banannaise]

Among other reasons, because the employer holds all of that information and I'm not given access to it. It's an asymmetric information problem.

[paulcole]

But you can for sure tell me the proportion that you think is fair right? Should it be 25%, 50%, 99%?

[fwip]

You're not arguing in good faith, dude.