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Corporations should be accountable to their employees. The system we have today is harmful.

Why? Employees are paid to do a job. Unless they're actual owners, why should a company be accountable to the employees? I'm not sure where a corporation owes anything to employees beyond payment for agreed-upon services. If the company goes out of business, should employees also share in the debt and obligations?

The employees who stay get paid more than if everyone stayed. Same idea as with unions, you're splitting the pie into less slices so each is bigger.

It isn't the same sized pie in both situations. There's shit that won't get done by my team anymore. I just sent an email to a stakeholder group telling them that I have to kill a valuable project.

It isn't like if Google fired 95% of people that comp for the remainder would hit $10m a person.

> The employees who stay get paid more than if everyone stayed

As someone who survived numerous rounds of layoffs, that's not true. The employees who stay get to work more (under more job security pressure) but that's about it. It's not like the wages of the workers who get laid off are reallocated as bonuses for the remaining employees.

Google pays a large amount of stock based comp, so at least that part of their wages will likely go up, at least in the short term.

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