What if wages for everyone in a company are regularly voted on by the rest of the company? For example, if the manager isn’t doing their job, their wages are lowered by vote. If the manager tries to lower the wages of the workers to a horribly low level, it could either a) be overruled by the majority, or b) the manager’s wages are lowered suit, pressuring them to increase it.

This is probably a really stupid idea that is extremely prone to corruption, but why?

edit: yep this really is a stupid idea

edit 2: someone mentioned that this is kinda like trade unions, where workers can negotiate pay, but in a really horrible method where it becomes a “popularity contest”.

I do think that someone else’s idea of keeping the every employee’s wages some % of the manager/CEO/whatever’s wages so that they aren’t incentivised to keep inflating their wages is pretty decent.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    remember, the google and meta things are about advertisng tech.

    It’s hurting walmart, kroger, and several others who are- basically- monopolies on their own. (and have many, many in congress paid off.)

    I’m not saying any corpo is somehow magically benevolent. No, I’m saying if you stick your hand in a tank full of hungry sharks… yer gonna get bit.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah and my point is that any monopoly is harmful and should be busted, but the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

        so we agree. because that’s my point. They’re not breaking up google or meta because it’s good to break up monopolies. They’re breaking them up because the oligarchs told them to.