Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
by UncleMeat on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:17PM
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> If it makes economic sense for you to pay me $100k, making that conditional on where I live is just a jerk move.
Google has like 100,000 employees. They had a net profit of $34B in 2019. That is 340,000 per employee. From a "we could pay people more" perspective, they are wildly underpaying their employees. That is precisely as much of a jerk move as anything else.
The only solution to this is collective action. I do hope that recognition of "wow, we really do get screwed by the bosses" among remote tech workers will allow the entire industry to see how capitalism seeks to minimize their pay.
Google has like 100,000 employees. They had a net profit of $34B in 2019. That is 340,000 per employee. From a "we could pay people more" perspective, they are wildly underpaying their employees. That is precisely as much of a jerk move as anything else.
The only solution to this is collective action. I do hope that recognition of "wow, we really do get screwed by the bosses" among remote tech workers will allow the entire industry to see how capitalism seeks to minimize their pay.