A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
“Ellerman has for years made an argument as startling as it is hard to refute: “the labor theory of property.” It’s that employees should own the firms they work for because of very simple logic: If they’re responsible for the consequences of their actions while on the job — committing a crime, say — how can it be that they’re not responsible for the positive things they do?”
Originally started typing something to a completely different post. Whoops.
But yes, that becomes the challenge when deciding to stake employees versus a simple profit share.
Staking employees gives them longer term incentives, whereas profit sharing will be fundamentally a sales commission.