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--- "Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> wrote:
>
> I'm envious when I read in _Moby Dick_ about
> how a harpooner would get something like one
> three-hundredth of the profit from a voyage.
>
> As a fraction of the company's stock, whatever
> options I've received as a writer/manager have been
> a few hundredths of a percent at most, even in
> small companies.
That was 100% of their pay. Would you like to work for a year or two,
and on product delivery, tie your pay to the company's profit...I
don't know about you, but the company I'm contracting at lost money
last quarter.
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