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by rm_-rf_slash 4002 days ago
Maybe it's just me but I've always felt that the corporation should be owned by the corporation. There is something disingenuous about founders who do their job for $1 a year cause they're multimillionaires that own 10% of the company. What happens 100 years down the road? Your descendants - assuming they haven't squandered their inheritance and aren't interested in being a part of a corporate dynasty - will put every ounce of pressure on the company to increase profits, and that means hefty compensation packages to attract executives while midlevel white collars have to fight tooth and nail for a measly hundredth of a percent in options.
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Welcome to the exploitative system that favors the rich: capitalism
These comments are ignorant beyond comprehension. Go start a non trivial company with your own money and run it for ten years. Then come back to see just how utterly ignorant these comments will sound to you.
Capitalists think that because they take on the risk, it is somehow morally justified to exploit others for wages. It is pretty obvious that it isn't much better than feudal indentured servitude and that ideally in any enterprise the risk and reward would be shared by everyone proportionally to their contribution.
> Capitalists think that because they take on the risk, it is somehow morally justified to exploit others for wages.

I don't know what you are smoking but you better stop.

Maybe you are trying to be funny. I don't know.

Such horse shit.