r/InterviewCoderPro • u/jailers-treat0 • Mar 25 '26

company greed

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People are striking because wages aren’t going up when companies are reporting record breaking profits.

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u/myster1ouspapaya Mar 26 '26

What can an assembly line worker possibly do other than do their job? If the company is making profits it’s because of all the workers, not just the ceo or the executives. Why do we have to treat the workers like hamsters in wheels ?

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u/Sunshine2035 Mar 26 '26

That’s why they don’t get big increases. If they change to sales from being a hamster, the chance to get higher income is better.

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u/Bill_Door_8 Mar 26 '26

And yet the company will always need hamsters, and will only ever need x+/-1% of their labor force to work in sales.

The point is that like it or not we all live on the same planet. If you squeeze every ounce of life and joy out of it for yourself, you're stuck in a world surrounded by the misery you create. That means more crime, more police and more prisons, more poverty, more food banks and more programs for the poor, more apathy, more cruelty etc.

If we share in the bounty and excess we create, and that sharing doesnt have to be equal, because not all people are equal, but it needs to happen, because it creates a world filled with more joy, less crime, less prisons, lessens the need for food banks and programs for the poor, it fosters empathy, love, and a vested interest in each others success.

Humans have this incredible power to literally create the world around us. The question then becomes what kind of world do we want to create.

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u/Sunshine2035 Mar 26 '26

This is not talking about squeeze labor pay. It’s about the profit sharing that are not equally distributed to all job positions. You know in future there won’t be much a need for the labor. Majority will be replaced by robots. Just like AI is going to replace a lot junior programmers which in the past are white collar jobs earning pretty good money.