Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary

• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My fault for not being able to read teeny tiny gray text on a white background, I guess.

  Anyway, comparing revenue to worker compensation isn't really very useful. Payroll comes out of that revenue, as does every other cost of doing business. Compare payroll to profit, or to executive compensation, if you want to make a point. Yeah, worker compensation sucks, but just comparing it to "the biggest number we could find" doesn't mean anything.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also these numbers are going to be higher for bigger operations.

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  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, you’re right, there’s no wealth gap problem, why even bother talking about it?

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    • Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Misrepresenting the issue causes people on the side of labor to be less effective in their efforts, because they're operating with flawed data, and makes it so that people on the side of capital can more easily disregard the concerns of labor.

      There are solid and useful comparisons to be made, as I previously mentioned. Worker salary vs. corporate revenue isn't one of them.

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