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Revolutionize the Archaic Hourly Wage System

Open for discussion: I am no economist, or financier, or anything like that. But it seems only fair to me that employee be paid not in a flat hourly rate, but as a flat percentage of the net quarterly profit of that company, with a variable average that updates each quarter that the employee has a job. For example, my company made 2.3 billion dollars in profit last quarter. Assume that all four quarters were the same. Also assume we weren't paid a wage in addition to the percentage, so 40k employees times ~$80k makes a total of $22bn for a year. Divided by those same 40k employees to find the profit per individual employee. Which is $550,000. If I got 15% of that, I'd make $82500 which is roughly my annual income. The company pockets the other 85% HOWEVER If Inflation occurs (which it is) and the company makes…


Open for discussion: I am no economist, or financier, or anything like that. But it seems only fair to me that employee be paid not in a flat hourly rate, but as a flat percentage of the net quarterly profit of that company, with a variable average that updates each quarter that the employee has a job. For example, my company made 2.3 billion dollars in profit last quarter. Assume that all four quarters were the same. Also assume we weren't paid a wage in addition to the percentage, so 40k employees times ~$80k makes a total of $22bn for a year. Divided by those same 40k employees to find the profit per individual employee. Which is $550,000.

If I got 15% of that, I'd make $82500 which is roughly my annual income.

The company pockets the other 85%

HOWEVER

If Inflation occurs (which it is) and the company makes more money, then I still get 15%, meaning I get more too, which seems to me would get rid of the blue collar workers taking the real heavy hits from inflation.

If someone can Identify any flaws in my rationale, I'd love to know.

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