Money talks. Show me the money. Put your money where your mouth is. What’s the number? It’s not about the money — it’s about the money.
American expressions in which the figure stands for the assessment. Compensation is discussed openly and read as a verdict.
American employees publish their own compensation to public databases, by company, level and location. The market price of a role is crowdsourced and freely available to anyone considering a move.
More than a dozen American states now require employers to publish pay ranges in job postings, most of that legislation passed since 2021. The remedy chosen for pay inequity was to make the numbers visible.
An American term of art covering salary, bonus, equity, retirement contributions and the employer’s share of insurance. The employee is encouraged to think of the whole package as one number, and comparison sites publish it that way.
The American job offer states base, bonus target, equity, signing bonus and start date as separate numbers. The whole of the arrangement is a set of figures, presented for negotiation.
American companies grant equity to employees well below executive level, vesting over years. The compensation is a claim on future value, and the employee’s interest is deliberately tied to the share price.
American sales roles are frequently paid mostly or entirely on commission, with no ceiling. The earnings are a direct function of output, and the arrangement is regarded as motivating rather than insecure.
American compensation is built in layers: base salary, annual bonus tied to individual and company results, equity, commission. A substantial share of pay for many roles is contingent and recalculated every year.
Oakland California sure does have a homeless problem. Driving around town, there’s homeless encampments all over the place. They’re on the side of the roads in dirt lots. There’s long stretches of them on sidewalks. Some of them are tents, some are RVs, some are actual encampments with makeshift structures where hundreds of people gather in communities.
It’s estimated there’s around 5,000 homeless individuals throughout the city of Oakland, but no one really knows the exact number. And the number of people on the streets in Oakland has nearly doubled in the last two years alone.
This social experiment was done to see how people react differently to a Rich girl and a poor girl.
YouTube comments:
“We’re living in a world where the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer.”
“They donated to the rich girl because she was hot, and dressed well.”
“I used to know a homeless man who would beg near a McDonalds. He was a really great person, and I would always donate some money. My dad even bought him a tent. Whenever I was near the McDonalds, I never really saw people who were looking to help him. Maybe they thought it was unimportant because he already had a tent, or maybe they didn’t have money, or they just didn’t want to donate. Eventually he was finally able to find a job (at that McDonalds to be exact) and he was able to sell his tent, add that money to what he had already, and buy himself a car! I haven’t seen him for a few years, but I hope that he is doing better in life.”