On: So you want to be a trillionaire

[rosndo]

Those minutes were really saved by the person who decided to hire cafeteria workers in order to boost employee productivity, not as much by the entirely fungible cafeteria workers.

[klyrs → rosndo]

If your boss tells you to write a new operating system, which your company makes a billion dollars selling, was it really your boss who made the company all that money?

[rosndo → klyrs]

That’s a bit too simplified, but yeah.

Unfortunately top level managers have far more control over the output of the business than low level laborers.

[beaconstudios → rosndo]

This is a post hoc justification for why executives make 1,000,000x more than the people who do the actual work.

[rosndo → beaconstudios]

It’s just the nature of working for someone else.

[beaconstudios → rosndo]

I think we're having separate conversations - you're describing how things are, I'm talking about how things should be. I agree that the nature of employment is one of exploitation - I'm saying that's a bad thing.