• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Supposedly the answer is inflation. The same profit next year is worth less, so it needs to go up to be the same.

    Of course thats not where most companies stop, is it.

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      2 months ago

      The thing that pisses me off if that my comp only goes up by 3% but that is failure to a corp.

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        2 months ago

        Thats interesting, I hadn’t connected those before. I think it would be hard to argue in favor of separate expectations for inflation of wages and the companies profits.

        Like I understand having a stellar year, but the goal is still set the same, and its fine to return tk that baseline next year. Or maybe even doing well one year means we can lower the goal next year, or bank the difference for bad weather years.

        Would be interesting if companies had an interest in the long term like that.