Should workers be rewarded for the profits they help to create?

Loughton_Monkey

No

kabayiri wrote: »

...We may end up moaning about troublesome robots in years to come!

.. particularly when an Apple robotic car runs over you and your dog, on the pavement, on the basis that swerving to avoid three children running into the road, making the death of you and your dog the 'least costly, and thus least expensive' thing to do.

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Apple are an interesting one......

....Just 1% of their profits handed over would change the lives of people in these factories.....

Well let's just see if you're right?

Apple Profits ~ £7.5 bn a quarter. Thus £30 bn a year
1% of profits ~ £300 million
Apple employees worldwide ~ 92,000
Those working in factories (50%?) ~ 46000

"Devon Dividend" = ~ £6,500 per employee.

Nice for any UK or American Apple factory workers, but hardly life changing.

In, say, China where average wage ~ £3,000 a year then Apple are more than trebling the salaries of its Asian workers?

This must be the biggest and best idea I've ever heard to enhance the acceptability of Apple Corporation. You simply must send your suggestion to Tim Cook. He'll have you on their board in no time with ideas like that.

purch

Yes

I've just evened your Poll up at 23 all :T

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

No

purch wrote: »

I've just evened your Poll up at 23 all :T

Not any more....:p

mayonnaise

No

Poll is invalid anyway as the question 'Should workers share more of the pay' is badly worded, utterly vague and irrelevant to the thread.

martinsurrey

No

mayonnaise wrote: »

Poll is invalid anyway as the question 'Should workers share more of the pay' is badly worded, utterly vague and irrelevant to the thread.

since when have we ever let something like that get in the way of a good argument!

cepheus

Yes

Thrugelmir wrote: »

You are asking the wrong question.

It should be is executive pay excessive?

He asked the question!

However, another question could be, should non workers be paid anything?

Loughton_Monkey

No

mayonnaise wrote: »

Poll is invalid anyway as the question 'Should workers share more of the pay' is badly worded, utterly vague and irrelevant to the thread.

What do you expect?

Look who posted the damned thing!

He missed out an option. They should have been "Yes", "No", or "Yes, but only those who work at board level."

.... large gin & tonics all round....:)

Graham_Devon

Yes

mayonnaise wrote: »

The thread says 'Should workers be rewarded for the profits they help to create?'
The poll asks 'Should workers share more of the pay'
2 entirely different questions.

mayonnaise wrote: »

I already told him poll question is unrelated to the question in the thread.

Oh well.

mayonnaise wrote: »

Poll is invalid anyway as the question 'Should workers share more of the pay' is badly worded, utterly vague and irrelevant to the thread.

We heard you!

Loughton_Monkey

No

mayonnaise wrote: »

.......

Your posts can be very informative, but currently I'm not fully understanding whether or not you think the OP is befuddled, confused, inconsistent, and asking incohererent questions followed up by irrelevant arguments.

I would like you to clarify, because I'm not hearing anything....?

antrobus

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

.. I'm not fully understanding whether or not you think the OP is befuddled, confused, inconsistent, and asking incohererent questions followed up by irrelevant arguments....

I'd be inclined to go for 'all of the above'.:)