Well if we paid you more we wouldn’t have record profits now would we? And I simply can’t afford that.

That’s very simple. Public companies have investors the directors respond to. If the company won’t brag about profits, it will lose investments, reducing its competitiveness and starting a death spiral. If it will pay bigger salaries, it will lose money and won’t be able to brag about profits.

Our current economy is double crazy in that companies don’t just have to make stable profits to stay afloat, but to ever increase those profits at the expense of everything - including workers.

The entire system is insane.

Stolen profits. Who earns that money? The workers do…

You can’t spell Scott Steiner without the letters C E O

Companies should start us at low-ish pay and quickly ramp it up, all while weeding out the sorry employees. If you kick ass and take names, you get paid, otherwise go find something you’re better at.

Watching my new boss for the first time got me thinking. The man easily does the work of two people, while tonight I expect to be standing around shooting the shit with a couple of guys who do the bare minimum.

tl;dr: Employers should compete for the best employees, thereby making everyone more money.