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lostnthenet t1_je5viq0 wrote

Reply to comment by Phoenix5869 in Is capitalism REALLY going to disappear? by Phoenix5869

It wouldn't be for free. Those employees are doing the work that is making the business run so why shouldn't they have some ownership in their work. Why should the person that started it reap all the profit from it when they are doing it on the backs of the workers?

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Surur t1_je5zv75 wrote

So they should be paid in shares and dividends, and when the company does poorly they can eat less, right?

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lostnthenet t1_je63h28 wrote

They should get wages and shares. Why not? There are lots of companies that are "employee owned" and usually they do better because people will care more if they have some ownership of what they are creating.

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Surur t1_je6434v wrote

> They should get wages and shares

As you note, that is not a new thing, in fact its a normal thing. So the reason Bezos is so rich is that he works for Amazon and was given the biggest allocation of shares.

Do you have a problem with that?

What if early Apple workers became billionaires (like early Microsoft employees).

Do you have a problem with that?

Or early Tesla factory workers?

Do you have a problem with people getting rich from their shares?

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