I’ve racked my brain for years trying to figure out how they actually make money off of me and I’ve never found an answer. I guess I can’t complain, but my actual talents are being squandered and so is most of our society.
Looking like a big company where the person you report to has many people under them/multiple teams and meeting all the goals they set for themselves looks stable on paper. You take those numbers to someone looking to invest and you puff up your chest about the expected growth and they’re the ones who give you the money. The company is predictable and modestly upward and that’s enough for someone who’s rich because their great grandparents confiscated a lot of gold in Germany in the preamble to WW2
If you compare the income vs expenditures of major companies and compare it to the contributions made by their workers to achieve it, they are still exploiting even (1) highly paid workers and (2) workers who don’t seem to be doing much. It’s really just misdirected work that doesn’t factor in, but even then that’s kind of the deal: selling labor time for them to direct it. You’re paid to let them do that even if they’re not great at it.
Anyways if you ever get to peek at their balance sheets and payroll your head will explode with rage.
I’m an accountant so I see those at a high level. It just shows how inefficient the system all is. I wish it was easy for most people to be self employed.
I’ve racked my brain for years trying to figure out how they actually make money off of me and I’ve never found an answer. I guess I can’t complain, but my actual talents are being squandered and so is most of our society.
If you’ve never read Bullshit Jobs by Graeber it’s a fun read. You can read it at work!
I’ll add it to the list!
Looking like a big company where the person you report to has many people under them/multiple teams and meeting all the goals they set for themselves looks stable on paper. You take those numbers to someone looking to invest and you puff up your chest about the expected growth and they’re the ones who give you the money. The company is predictable and modestly upward and that’s enough for someone who’s rich because their great grandparents confiscated a lot of gold in Germany in the preamble to WW2
If you compare the income vs expenditures of major companies and compare it to the contributions made by their workers to achieve it, they are still exploiting even (1) highly paid workers and (2) workers who don’t seem to be doing much. It’s really just misdirected work that doesn’t factor in, but even then that’s kind of the deal: selling labor time for them to direct it. You’re paid to let them do that even if they’re not great at it.
Anyways if you ever get to peek at their balance sheets and payroll your head will explode with rage.
I’m an accountant so I see those at a high level. It just shows how inefficient the system all is. I wish it was easy for most people to be self employed.