We will reduce inequality if firms offer workers company shares

The gap between rich and poor has widened in many countries over the past few decades and continues to expand. So here’s an idea: What if more companies allowed employees to own a share of the pie? Many economists and business experts think society would become more equitable if workers owned a stake in their companies. Capital income is becoming much more important,” Douglas Kruse, an economist and professor at Rutgers University in the U.S. state of New Jersey, told me. Capital income, as o
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