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HWR_144y ago· 2 in thread

I'm trying hard to come up with a response that's not just an insult and dismissal.

I have no idea what you're talking about or thinking about. A percentage of tax receipts? Why on earth would that make more sense than just money up front?

Tabular-IcebergOP4y ago

I don’t know why you feel an urge to be dismissive or insulting about the government issuing securities. Or why some money up front is necessarily better than more money later, which surely is the whole point of equity in the private sector.

I’ll grant you that dusty old war bonds are unlikely to get strapping young devs very excited, but I’m sure that they can come up with a higher risk, higher reward financial instrument with some imagination.

HWR_144y ago

Government issued bonds are the antithesis of high-risk, high-reward. And I don't see any reason why you wouldn't just use whatever salaries make sense. Google et al use RSUs for vesting purposes, but aside from tradition (and tax benefits) they could just issue a cash amount.

In a smaller company, the stock may appreciate due to your actions, but there's absolutely no reason to think most employees would do anything that moves Google's stock price. And even less to think anyone would do anything that would impact US government tax receipts.

Working for Google and getting RSUs isn't really higher-risk, higher reward compared to a salary.

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Ancapistani4y ago

Taking for granted that this would be possible, from an economic and political standpoint, I would consider equity in the US Treasury to be about as potential valuable as equity in a randomly selected tech startup - which is to say, almost certainly worthless.

throwaway092234y ago

We call that "US Dollars"

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