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Originally Posted by Jel
I didn't take a keen interest in the details as I'm in the 'what a dick he is' category, but weren't the wages increases from cutting his own $1m down to 70k? Not sure how many employees there were/are and some went from eg 45k to 70k, but I thought that was how he financed the initial increase, rather than consumer cost (for now).
If you just mean in general, ignore this post  |
It doesn't matter. No one knows the facts and no one is arguing the facts. This is gfy. The stately is "guy pays everyone 70k a year" and everyone likes up to examine why that's fair and why everyone should be paid more than the value they represent to the company. Anyone that's ever hire and fired and employed a lot of people knows full well that you pay people their value. Paying them more than they are worth is a busted when you can hire a new Persian of value.
Tony was a life long Union auto worker... To him all companies are greedy, management is selfish and evil and no one ever gets what they're worth. Had he ever actually ran a successful business... Instead of spending his time planning his next Union grievance, , he'd see things in a very different way.
That said, we need the Tomys of the world. Someone has to stand their and run that big metal press. And if he didn't have his mindset - he wouldn't have been there to do it. It's obviously not going to be done by the guy who feels that life is full of nothing but opportunity and potential for growth. It's going to be done by the guy that thinks an unfair life and unfair greedy companies put him there and keeps him here and give him no chance to succeed.