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Re:What workers want: raises that beat inflation by robertlagrant on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:33PM (#31758222)
Some businesses have negative profits. If you want a share in the profits you have to have a share of the losses as well. That's what the bosses do.
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Re:What workers want: raises that beat inflation by queuebert on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:27PM (#31760234)
Sort of. The bosses have shares that go down in value, but it's not like they are paying into the company from their personal money to balance the books in most cases. (Not that this never happens, but it is rare I bet.)
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Re:What workers want: raises that beat inflation by robertlagrant on Thursday June 16, 2022 @01:30AM (#31762715)
Many founders will do this directly or indirectly. Most businesses are not tech startups from the last 20 years and don't have access to capital outside of a bank loan to the founder(s).
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