Would liberals be okay with this solution to what is wrong with our corporations?
So, you guys tend to argue that corporate CEOs have ridiculously inflated salaries that are undeserving. Many actually call CEOs lazy, and say that the people lower down on the totem pole do all of the real work. Well, I have a solution that you should find appealing.
We'll use Walmart as an example.
The first order of business is to come up with a flat salary for all people under the Walmart umbrella. A rate that allows all employees to live a comfortable, reasonable lifestyle. This rate would change over time so that the employees wouldn't be negatively affected by things like inflation.
Alright, so we've determined some ideal salary that everyone in the company receives. It's completely fair, everyone gets the same money and benefits from the CEO down to the guy that greets people at the door. Now, what Walmart will do after the employees get paid is keep only what money they need for the company to continue. After all, their absurd profits are of no use to them. They company will keep whatever it needs to actually survive, and the rest will be given to the government.
Now we have a fair and balanced model for the corporate food chain. Here's the fun part. All of those lazy CEOs and other executives that used to make absurd amounts of money? They're now at the bottom of the corporate ladder. They are the ones who actually work in the stores.
The folks who used to work in the stores are now distributed along the corporate ladder in an inverse manner. The people who stocked shelves and ran the registers are the top executives. They get to make the big picture decisions now and make sure that the company is steered in the right direction on a daily basis. The people that used to work as managers in the stores are now directly under the new company executives. The rest of the Walmart family is given their jobs in the same inverse manner.
Now everything is completely fair, because no one is unfairly being paid over what anyone else is. The folks that used to be stuck at the bottom are now living it up at the top, while the once high and mighty now have to do all of the real work.
Is this a fair solution? Should major American corporations implement such a strategy?
@scott b
Sorry, I forgot to specify that. The new company executives decide the salary that everyone in the company, including themselves, receives.