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Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'::The company has revived a number of employee perks, according to Bloomberg, including branded t-shirts, laundry services, and free haircuts.

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[+] yoz@aussie.zone -44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Then Meta won't be a billion $ company. There's a reason workers are paid less, let's say a janitor gets paid $8/hour and the CEO gets paid $10000/hour.

If you start paying a janitor $10000/hour , tomorrow the janitor may ask the CEO to clean toilets as they both are getting paid equally or won't show up to work as the janitor has too much money to keep cleaning toilets. That's why we have hierarchy and front line workers needs to be at the bottom of this. Welcome to Capitalism !

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting how there is no middle ground between $8 an hour and $10000 an hour. What do you think of $20 an hour? That is still 500 times less than a ceo pay so the ceo doesn't need to clean toilets any time soon.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

The janitor works for $8/hour out of desperation. The CEO works for $10k/hr out of greed. The difference in pay rates based on position should be regulated. I think a CEO should only be paid at most 10 times more than the lowest paid job in any organization. That way everyone will have some parity and a shot at a decent life even at the low end.

[–] wagoner@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't hear people arguing for everyone to be paid the top salary of the CEO. Maybe let's start with, I dunno, 20 dollars an hour minimum.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda reminds me of a guy I used to hang out with. He had found out that the US shreds old currency, and was utterly appalled. "They could just give that to people!"

"OK, Mike, the government could easily give every American $1,000,000, tomorrow. You want that?"

"Hell ya!"

"OK, you know I mow lawns for a living, $30 a pop? (early 90s!)"

"Yeah."

"Now pretend you have a lawn you want mowed. Fuck I want $30 for? I have a million! I'm going to need $10,000 to even think about it."

The whole idea baffled him, never got it.

But yeah, where we're at now is fucked up. I get that CEO pay is determined by the market. I get that dropping CEO pay won't make a dent in line worker pay. But still, the wealth disparity is heinous.

And the worse it gets, the more influence the rich can buy and the less the rest of us have.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

On the flip side, this is a great way to illustrate the coercive nature of capitalism. Most jobs wouldn't exist if mindless productivity wasn't a prerequisite to feed your family