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Gorsameth
Netherlands21373 Posts
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CatharsisUT
United States487 Posts
On August 08 2019 05:18 Gorsameth wrote: Isn't a problem with getting part of their salary in shares for low level employees that they actually need money in hand to spend on living expenses? Yes, which is why it is uncommon for low-level employees. Share programs are generally used for executives or for front-office employees they want to incentivize to stay for the long-term (as many of them have lengthy vesting periods). | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5277 Posts
https://ncbaclusa.coop/resources/ Guided by a set of 7 Cooperative Principles, co-ops are owned and governed by their members—not stockholders. The 65,000 co-op establishments in the U.S. range in size from small, local stores to $30 billion multi-national organizations. Cooperative businesses operate across virtually all industries, or sector generally, co-ops are still actively negotiating their being model but given the right people, looks to be the replacement(if one is desired) for CEOs driven companies. | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9489 Posts
More than half of public companies that provide equity compensation to workers offer an employee stock purchase plan, according to the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals. Fidelity found that only one-third of employees who have access to such plans use them. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/14/employee-stock-purchase-plans-are-underutilized.html | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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farvacola
United States18818 Posts
On August 08 2019 04:43 CosmicSpiral wrote: It's funny. I actually ascribe immense credit to Hayek for tackling the epistemological limitations involved in managing and making decisions in highly complex, modern societies. It's a vital problem to this day and he was one of the first Western public intellectuals, to my knowledge, who couched it in non-academic terms. But it's clear in retrospect that "The Use of Knowledge in Society" assumes rational choice theory would work out the inherent kinks in how knowledge was unequally dispersed in the aggregate. Besides the price gouging of monopolies, his theory fails to account for how knowledge acts as a contagion - it can be recursively inundated instead of distributed through a spectrum - through limited channels. Not to mention how exchange of information between individuals functions as social control and social signaling, leading what constitutes collective wisdom within a domain to converge and subsequently skew pricing as a mechanism that supposedly "reveals true preferences" (e.g. the role of derivatives in driving the mortgage crisis). As it much pains me, I can't deny that Hayek played an important role, as you point out. Nevertheless, there's a nice dose of pomo irony in the fact that Hayek fairly accurately described the epistemic limitations that fundamentally break command economies, only for his own theory to fall victim to its epistemic limitations. Then again, there's likely something to be said for how that criticism can be levied at practically every historical thinker :D | ||
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Sent.
Poland9107 Posts
On August 08 2019 05:37 xM(Z wrote: co-ops, why no one talks about co-ops?. https://ncbaclusa.coop/resources/ generally, co-ops are still actively negotiating their being model but given the right people, looks to be the replacement(if one is desired) for CEOs driven companies. What's the difference between co-ops and those usually inefficient worker owned entities we had left in eastern Europe after communism? Are those the the same things? | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
When I wrote "It's not really something that can be legislated into existance nationwide" I mean it as an instant "solution" to pay inequality. I suppose it is possible that legislation can make non co-operatives so unprofitable that the sole business ownership model for a business will be cooperatives, but essentially, there will need such a change in public attitude across the entire country on the level of the birth of nationalism that such legislation can possibly pass. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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ThaddeusK
United States231 Posts
On August 08 2019 06:06 CorsairHero wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/14/employee-stock-purchase-plans-are-underutilized.html "Half of public companies that provide equity compensation" seems rather different than "Half of public companies" and the article has no mention of the percentage of public companies which provide equity compensation. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
 He's the candidate proposing Universal basic income of $1000 a month for every adult. Does him having played protoss make him a better or worse candidate than before knowing that info? BroodWar toss usually means noob :p It's at 51:14 in this video: + Show Spoiler [mentioning Starcraft in H3 podcast] + | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Dromar
United States2145 Posts
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Ryzel
United States520 Posts
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ShoCkeyy
7815 Posts
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States22734 Posts
On August 09 2019 02:59 NewSunshine wrote: He's on the path to do what Bernie's been doing. Even if he never wins, he's been succeeding at raising new conversations, and getting us to push for more and more from the candidates we actually accept. No. Medicare for all, free college, a living wage and a political revolution are real conversations Bernie (and his supporters) fundamentally shifted the discourse on (even if Democratic politicians are using empty rhetoric with no intention of following through). Yang has relentlessly pushed (a shitty) UBI and self-deprecating racist jokes to make white people comfortable. Neither of which are going to be part of future campaigns or even seriously entertained (outside of a way to make austerity palatable). Yang is awful imo. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States22734 Posts
ICE Raids Miss. Plant After $3.75 Million Sexual Harassment Settlement Today, ICE carried out what is believed to be the largest immigration raid in decades when they detained 680 workers at seven poultry plants in Morton, Mississippi. The workers, many of them members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), were employed by a company called Koch Foods Inc, which employs 13,000 workers throughout the US. (Koch Foods Inc. has no connection or relation to the billionaire political donor Koch Brothers). The UFCW, which represents workers at the plant, has been meeting with community groups and immigrants rights activists to mobilize community and legal support on behalf of the workers. As buses full of poultry workers arrived pulled up to the Mississippi National Guard base at Flowood, Mississippi 70 family members and supporters families gathered shouting at the armed guards, “Let Them Go! Let Them Go!” as workers were taken into the makeshift detention facility. The detention suffered by immigrants is yet another abuse suffered by immigrant poultry workers employed by Koch Foods Inc in Morton, Mississippi. In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle, Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.75 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant. The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.” As part of its settlement, Koch Foods Inc. agreed to a three-year federal consent decree to change its discriminatory practices. As part of the consent decree, Koch Foods Inc. was forced to create a 24-hour-a-day bilingual hotline for workers to use to file complaints. Many immigrants rights advocates have speculated that workers are targeted for raids after their facilities get investigated for worker abuse. paydayreport.com | ||
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