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Silver-Armadillo-479 t1_j9fbhle wrote

Reply to comment by timberwolf0122 in Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip by brooklynlad

You fundamentally don't understand capitalism, or if you do are just woefully misguided. Holy shit. The workers wouldn't have a job without shareholders. There would be no "work" to do and no money to earn. I'm not some corporate shill, but I also didn't stake millions to start a business. If you take risk then you get reward.

If you don't like being an employee then start a business, take the risk with your own capital, and run it however you like. Otherwise, kindly learn some history and economics

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timberwolf0122 t1_j9folig wrote

Because every company has shareholders/s

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Silver-Armadillo-479 t1_j9fouaw wrote

Yes every company does. Even private companies. Money/capital has to come from somewhere to start. A single owner is a shareholder...

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timberwolf0122 t1_j9foxqj wrote

That’s not quite the same as a publically traded company when one thinks of shares now is it

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Silver-Armadillo-479 t1_j9fqngo wrote

It's the same concept, regardless of your claimed minute differences.

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timberwolf0122 t1_j9gkcnd wrote

Well, no. A privately held business doesn’t have to make a bunch of randos with an E*trade account happy.

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Silver-Armadillo-479 t1_j9gl6e3 wrote

The privately owned business usually still has investors. Almost nobody has enough capital on their own to create a large business without raising capital.

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