To crazy man (The Real World)
Reply to: comm-637645497@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-10, 3:57PM CDT
Unions do not solve problems. Wake up! You are pushing for regulated markets (which is pretty much an oxymoron). Corporate greed? Is that all you can whine about? Corporate greed?
Corporations are obligated to maximize stockholders' return. If the corporation doesn't provide enough of a return, then the board (elected by the stockholders) will fire those responsible. Very simple. It has nothing to do with the CEOs being greedy. Only in EXTREMELY rare cases does a CEO have enough votes to set his own salary. The board has to approve it.
But here's the bottom line: you value that money they give you more than you value you the work you give them. Otherwise you wouldn't do it. If you really believed you were more valuable then what they pay you, then you wouldn't work for that pay. Period. That is BASIC economics. You don't go around trading a nickel for another nickel all day. People don't make trades for items of equal value.
How do you make yourself more valuable? Well, find out what the corporation values. Do they value someone who can speak Cantonese? Then learn Cantonese. Do they value someone that can rebuild a four-stroke engine? Then learn how to do that. The problem with the 'worker bees' is that they spend more of their working lives without making themselves more valuable. They expect to get a raise just because they worked somewhere for a year, or for five years.
Do you voluntarily pay your grocer more every few years JUST because he kept selling you groceries? (and no, I'm not talking about cost-of-living increases to offset inflation).
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