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She also made $29,000,000 in 2022 for herself, cause she worked so hard and made so many cars herself. Ha

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"But if you shared that money among all workers, they'd only get an extra 50 cents per hour!!!!" - some tool defending corporate profit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$3.4B / 167000 workers / 2000 hours = $10.18/hr raise, which is quite substantial.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but that would only be for one year. What about after that? Take the raise away? They don't do $3.4b stock buy backs every year I imagine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just the exorbitant profit that they put into stock buy backs. And if they spent half of that on buybacks and gave every employee a 10k bonus I'm sure opinions of them would be a lot more favourable.

They could easily cut back some of their "profit" to pay people better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I don't disagree that it should have gone to employees, just wanted to be clear that $10 an hour wasn't quite accurate. I'm sure a one time yearly bonus would be just as much appreciated and needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They also paused stock dividends for COVID 3 years ago and only resumed it now at 9¢ instead of 38¢

And their 2022 gross profit was nearly 21 billion dollars. That's an extra 60 dollars an hour for every employee

They have the money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They don’t do $3.4b stock buy backs every year I imagine.

No... but they could give everyone a $2/hr raise, which isn't trivial, and sustain themselves at that level for FIVE YEARS on the current excess.

Another option is to give everyone a bonus; doing the math on 3.4bn/167k workers, is around 20k each; even if they "only" gave half of that back to the workers, a $10k bonus is pretty nice and one-time. There's no excuse....