Damn employees! Can't prosper with them, can't prosper without them. ;)
Seriously, canaryinthemine, you are too well read and life-experienced to really subscribe to that ideology. Every penny you are compensated is a penny less in the corporations' profit. You exchange a combination of your knowledge, effort, time and skill for compensation you agreed to. If the company makes a dollar or a million dollars YOU placed the value on the assets you bring to the table.
Apostasy!
And,....please don't patronize me...I am neither "too well-read, or life-experienced"..There is no such animal, in my Opinion....
I am also not well-educated.....except for 10th Grade. Went through that one three times, and I got that one down like a science......
Do I believe that ideology? You bet I do! The corporation only makes a...profit,.....by the skills a workman brings,..implying a complicit contract between worker and company owner.
If the owner decides to ...expand a business beyond his own abilities and skills,........he must hire(contract) the number of "employees" he needs. The "need" is his,...not the employees contracted.
If he doesn't "hire"....he doesn't grow. And,....if he has a business where he can completely automate,....and doesn't need those stinky, whiny, needy employees,.........is that business worthy of being a....participant of our society?
Business tends to belittle the idea that ...originally,...a business was created to fill a societal need,...for PEOPLE! When a business gets to the point that it is both detrimental to people and society,....and has merely become a vehicle for personal wealth,......(..and personal legislative power,...in this age of Citizen's United,..)...then society,...and PEOPLE,...have to determine whether that business is....neccesary,....or not......
Most people are fed the gullible idea that business transcends societal mores and constraints........They support this "idea",...because of a very subtle infusion of "economic slavery" into modern society. You are..."beholden"....to your employer,......so you must "support" your employer........inasmuch as he will continue to trickle a few "breadcrumbs" your way,....as long as you don't question his methods or tactics.
In America,...that is tantamount to surrendering your Constitutional Rights, once you've punched the time clock......
If there are two employees in a company,...me and the owner,.....and the company makes a dollar,......well , I would certainly expect to get fifty cents of that dollar. He hired me because he didn't have the...ability...to make that dollar on his own.......
A Novel Idea,.......in this 250 year old experiment in personal liberty. One that mercantile interests hate.........The rise of Unions occurred because business owners felt that if their personal wealth dropped,....then the wealth of their employees must drop also. (See the reasons for the Battle of Homestead , Pa)........This idea implies a certain "ownership" of a group of employees........and control over their finances,.....much the same way an agrarian South controlled vast groups of people in the pre-Civil War era.......
Business owners see nothing wrong with immoral dealings with employees. Only getting caught doing it,...is the "crime". Lying and obfusticating a companies' true worth during contract times ,.....is almost "de riguer" standard negotiating tactics. Businesses claim a certain "moral high ground"....because they are "job producers".
Does that "moral high ground" still exist,....when lies, and money to influence legislation,...make certain businesses the only game in town available to certain groups of people?
Is it still "moral" when CEO's,.......who don't even have the basic skills to ...operate.....the means of production in a company,....are compensated at an obscene rate,....many times over the actual revenue-producers themselves?
At what point does a ....business....merely become a personal wealth machine,....at the expense of it's customers, employees, and American society?