This is totally self-destructive and counter-productive, and an example of a group of people with no real experience + absolute bad judgment attempting to force their ill conceived notions on anyone they think is preventing them from reaching the happiness they are entitled to (all without doing the hard work).
If you want to get paid well, take the chance and start your own business, or buy shares in an existing enterprise. Or have the ability to be skillful and in high demand.
> Schwan was paid 261 times as much as Roche's lowest paid worker in 2012, according to a study by employee group Travail.Suisse.
Perhaps Schwan created 261 times more value for the company than the lowest paid employee.
Or perhaps people who decide how much Schwan was offered have incentives other than how much money he'd provide for the company.
Sorry, I didn't read that correctly. I got the impression somewhere along the way that the people in companies that are are doing the hard work and adding real value are the same ones who are paid insufficiently to start families and get ahead in their lives. It is middle and upper management that can be trimmed without worrying too much about a company's bottom line.
Typically, this is called something like CompanyName Management Ltd. which sources all its products from CompanyName Ltd. The management company owns the other company, but they are two separate legal structures.
So for an exec to take home $1 million, their lowest paid employee would have to be on $83,333
Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting article but, frankly, there are plenty of other websites I can go to for this kind of content.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
Is anyone here familiar enough with how Switzerland's economy is structured to know which way it would lean?
