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And if you make a mistake that costs the company $10k is it also okay to withhold $10,000 from your pay that period too? You seem to be tying reward _directly_ to profit, while ignoring the risk involved. Usually the higher the risk, the higher the opportunity for reward - but if it fails, the business needs to absorb the risky loss and insulate the workers as much as possible. This means that when there IS a big profit, part of that profit needs to be kept for future losses too in order to smooth things out so they don't have to do layoffs if they have a bad month.

If you fly too close to the sun and your weekly pay directly relates to the value you put in that week you'd might have job security but you'd have absolutely no income security!



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