the parable leverages our feelings of injustice tickled by the very relatable narrative to carry one point home, the Heavens part.
the other, secular reading, has a heavy taste of prosperity gospel, putting employers into God's boots to justify blatant injustice and better margins, fka profits. it is and remains unfair to offer different employees different wages for the same work.
please don't use the gospel to justify injustice.
btw,bI'm amazed there are employee owned companies.
For example whenever there is another round of Huawei bashing I remind myself that Huawei is fully employee owned with no majority shareholders.
The exact situation is (intentionally or not) very obscure to outsiders. There’s a research paper[0] dedicated to the question of who actually owns Huawei. Its authors found that:
> The Huawei operating company is 100% owned by a holding company, which is in turn approximately 1% owned by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and 99% owned by an entity called a “trade union committee” for the holding company.
> We know nothing about the internal governance procedures of the trade union committee. We do not know who the committee members or other trade union leaders are, or how they are selected.
> Trade union members have no right to assets held by a trade union.
> What have been called “employee shares” in “Huawei” are in fact at most contractual interests in a profit-sharing scheme.
> Given the public nature of trade unions in China, if the ownership stake of the trade union committee is genuine, and if the trade union and its committee function as trade unions generally function in China, then Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned.
> Regardless of who, in a practical sense, owns and controls Huawei, it is clear that the employees do not.
For what it’s worth, Huawei’s own legal chief described[1] it as a private company back in 2019.
The idea that a software engineer being bitter about his still probably high compensation being an injustice is laughable bordering on insane.
We live in an age where you don’t even have to get out of your house in order to make a very good living and we have the audacity to call it an injustice when somebody else receives something that we didn’t instead of just being happy for them. As if the key to modern happiness is found in personal financial gain.
> remind myself that Huawei is fully employee owned with no majority shareholders
You know it’s a Chinese company right? That employees have as much control over it as they do companies that are formally state owned enterprises, none? That it’s run by the internal CCP committee?
the other, secular reading, has a heavy taste of prosperity gospel, putting employers into God's boots to justify blatant injustice and better margins, fka profits. it is and remains unfair to offer different employees different wages for the same work.
please don't use the gospel to justify injustice.
btw,bI'm amazed there are employee owned companies.
For example whenever there is another round of Huawei bashing I remind myself that Huawei is fully employee owned with no majority shareholders.
https://www.huawei.com/en/facts/question-answer/who-owns-hua....