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How about pay of your suppliers?

You assemble cars. The radios are made by a company making radios in China for $1 a day.

Okay so you include those. Now miners. The metal that goes in the radio is mined by a guy for $2 a day.

This link CEO pay to worker pay thing sounds really good on paper, but I don't think you could actually do it in a way that would not encourage very bad events (like lay off half your staff)



those are totally separate companies w/ their own ceo and own pay structure to worry about and outside of scope/beyond control.

I also tied it to % increase/decrease of employees. So if you increase by 1% your employees, you would be allowed a 10% increase bonus, so if you earn 10 mill, you now earned 11 mill if you hire 1% more staff this year over last year. However if you lay off 1% you lose 1 million because it's also a penalty. So laying off half your staff obviously does NOT help in this situation.


Suppliers would be subject to the same rules. They'd have to raise their prices to compensate or take a hit on their own personal income from the top -- just as this first corporation will have to do.




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