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Well, if you save the company a million dollars, do you get even .01% of that?

Nope.

Large companies are like communism, even when there are opportunities for internal competition, it is stamped out. And for all the talk of "market pay" and "executive rentention bonuses", there is little in the way of incentivizing employees with revenue sharing tied to what they produce.

Which underlines the entrenched oligarchy of the USA. Like a meta-conway's law, our government is just a reflection of large corporations in the age of cartel/monopoly/consolidation in virtually all sectors.




0.01% of $1mil is only a $100 bonus. You better get that factored in at your annual bonus review!


Oops, math in anger :-)


Ironically, under communism the workers would directly get get a share of the money they make/save for the company.


I have never heard of that happening in _any_ real-world version of communism. Maybe you are thinking of an employee-owned company?




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