[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.

[try_the_bass]

I dunno, he's asking a really basic question that should be trivial to answer. When I see a basic, level-setting question like this go unanswered, it starts to seem like the side refusing to answer is the one acting in bad faith, not the side asking the question

[paulcole]

How so?

The whole discussion stems from someone saying that they should be paid relative (in proportion to) their value.

All I want to know is what proportion (i.e. a percentage between 0 and 100) someone would deem fair. Why is that so hard to provide?