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> that's never been how labor is valued

Unless you're a professional sportsball player, C-suite executive, actor, etc...

There's a number of labor jobs who haven't put capital into the business yet who receive compensation in line with the value they bring to the companies.

What we're lacking to receive the same is leverage, because unions have been defanged and discredited in our current times.




Sorry, I'm having trouble connecting your comment to mine.

> Unless you're a professional sportsball player, C-suite executive, actor, etc..

How are these folks valued in a manner different from what my comment states?


as a regular worker bee you cannot have benefits of CEO's job without risks & efforts of becoming and working as CEO.

same reason why sports school teacher cannot be paid NFL player's salary, despite both of them engaging in "sports".

high compensation - you have to compete for it, earn it, and prove everyday that you deserve it, you cannot demand handouts with your sole argument being some sort of "fairness"


> as a regular worker bee you cannot have benefits of CEO's job without risks & efforts of becoming and working as CEO

I'd love the "risk" of failing up. Do the golden parachute and handcuffs come with that package?


plenty of regular workers fail up as well, the whole "jump ship every two years" culture of software engineers is essentially failing up, without getting promotion at existing job.

same with rsu packages




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