Google famously paid stock shares to the in-house kitchen staff, when it first opened its offices in California.
Regardless, pick up a copy of Piketty's "Capitalism in the 21st Century". He goes into great length about the rise of the PMC in the wake of the Reagan Revolution.
Then yeah, I imagine that did change their class interests, at least with regard to google. It'd be in their interest to support a policy which harmed workers but increased the stock price.
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Google famously paid stock shares to the in-house kitchen staff, when it first opened its offices in California.
Regardless, pick up a copy of Piketty's "Capitalism in the 21st Century". He goes into great length about the rise of the PMC in the wake of the Reagan Revolution.
Was it a lot, compared to their salaries?
Once the stock took off in the '00s, substantially so.
Then yeah, I imagine that did change their class interests, at least with regard to google. It'd be in their interest to support a policy which harmed workers but increased the stock price.