Originally Posted by Dharma

Bob, let me try to address each of your points:

1. Equity holders are people who own stock, not those that receive profit sharing.
2. Profit Sharing absorbed into pay rates grow at a compounded rate with every future pay raise. Profit Sharing is not compounded by future pay raises. Do you understand the power of compound interest?
2. Profit Sharing exchanged into pay rates can be negotiated away (with the stroke of a pen), whereas Profit Sharing can simply disappear without negotiation. I prefer to have the option of negotiation.