Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses.

• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The story exists because of an employer taking advantage of an employee. The numbers can be whatever makes sense.

  Look up sec filings for the company you work for (or whatever company you feel like getting mad at), and compare revanue and profits to employee counts, and how those numbers have changed in the past 15 years. If we define “productivity” as profits divided by employee count, then for my job “productivity” has increased 30x in 15 years while my wages have increased approximately 2.5x. If you define “productivity” as revanue divided by employee count, then it’s even worse.

  The exploitation is the point, and the story works for anyone who’s worked too hard for too little, regardless of the specific numbers.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Agreed. The numbers are the basis of the abuse. So just use real numbers

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    • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The numbers are a measure of the abuse.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The existence of the numbers is the reason for the abuse

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