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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 34 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I own a company, self employed and I set up my business to only need to do 20 billable hours a week. That covers my wage and insurance costs for myself. Obviously at that I'm not making profit as a business but as an employee I am making a good living

It really opened my eyes to how much businesses fuck their employees and how much value i created for the 13 years i worked for others.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 18 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I think we should have a law that employees at a company have a right to a share of % of the profits.

Would help incentives workers, too. You're gonna work harder if you know your efforts actually pay off.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah the biggest change for me is now going to work isn't so bad, don't get me wrong i don't love every day, but when I'm still working at 8pm punching a 14 hour day I know it's all going to support my family, not paying some cunt to sit in an office and get paid for "making the hard decisions"

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

a share of % of the profits.

Hollywood already has the playbook for that. You can have as little "profit" as you need to avoid payouts to people with profit share arrangements. Funny how executive compensation cuts into profits...

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

even better: the workers should own the company. including its profits as well as its decisions.