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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:23 AM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I would suggest something like 1/2 to 2/3rds of the mean wage of the country |
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> the trustee lives in, with some kind of cap. |
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I was actually shocked at how hard it was to determine the "mean wage" |
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of the USA. |
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The US maintains: |
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Per capita income ($26k) |
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Median individual income ($32k) |
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Mean household income ($73k) |
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Then there are figures like median income of age 25+ persons with a |
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bachelor's or higher, which is $61k. |
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Depending on which figure you pick you're offering anywhere from 100% |
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of the Foundation's current income to 300% of it, to pay a single |
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person (in the US). And that is almost certainly to pay them a small |
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fraction of what they probably are already making in their regular |
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job. Then after accepting something not much above minimum wage they |
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get to put up with everybody expecting them to provide the same level |
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of service as an accounting firm. Perhaps we could instead hire from |
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a country with lower income, and then get to argue about income |
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equality... |
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All that said, I actually agree that our failure to hire professionals |
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is probably a big part of our problem. The issue is that what we need |
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and what we can afford, and for that matter what we probably want, are |
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all at odds. |
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This is a big part of why I tend to like the idea of joining an |
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umbrella org. Rather than having every little niche FOSS project hire |
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multiple accountants it makes far more sense to split the overhead, as |
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balancing 10 sets of books is not 10x harder than balancing one set. |
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It also separates the money more from the decision-making within the |
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distro. |
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