Originally Posted by
JamesBond
Yeah it is. Everything is for sale. The fact that you don't acknowledge that means you know nothing of negotiations. If they offered a $500,000 bonus for those 35 RJs you gonna tell me you wouldn't take it?
Straw Man theoretical aside, I would vote no on that.
Everything is not for sale. The high theory of "well if they gave us a billion dollars for more RJ's..." [actually your example is about 6.5B] yadda yadda is just silly. They can't and they won't, and if they offered something eye watering in exchange for a core tenant of our contract then I would suspect a trap long before I ever mentally pre-spent the money.
How about the top 49% of the list gets stapled to the bottom in inverse seniority order in exchange for positive space commuting, guaranteed 4-5 star hotels (with points!), an 8/3/3 with a targeted $200K signing bonus only for the 51% and an extra week of vacation only for the 51%? Everything is for sale, right?
While I get the gist of your argument over all, its that prevailing philosophy that I take issue with; especially the hyperbolic theoreticals that philosophy is often rife with. They will never make us filthy rich in exchange for a small concession. Ever. We will never even get all the value of an apparently small concession.
Are more large RJ's "for sale"?
No.
Oh come on, theoretically, right? Like Indecent Proposal, right?
OK we'll play along. Sure LOL.
Great how much?
You can't afford it.
Roll credits.