Lol, taxes.

Lol wages.

No you have to pay taxes on the value of the stocks when you get them

I lose like 1/3 my stocks to withholding

They get sold immediately and given to the government

You pay tax on dilution?

Weird

Wait till something replaces these systems.

What then?

There’s two kinds of stocks companies give. Stock options where employee can buy it cheap and stock grant where the company just pays you free stocks

Oh okay
I'm thinking of the latter

If your company literally gives you stocks that’s income you need to pay taxes in

This makes more sense now

It goes right on your w-2

What’s dilution

If they give you more stock, the rest of your equity goes down in value

Same market cap but more shares

For a small company yeah maybe

If it’s publicly traded the shares you get are a drop in the bucket

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Cute

So even though in the aggregate you have more wealth on paper you just made a loss on every share

I mean that’s not true if your company’s stock price is going up

Except the marginal ones

Well yeah

Very cute

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It’s a gamble. If you work for a big company your stocks have guaranteed value. But if you work for a startup your “worthless” stocks might be worth millions if the company goes public with IPO

Some companies stock goes up so much a ton of their employees get so rich they quit

Curse of success

Yea it used to be solely a start up thing because they have no money
Now the bluechips do it because of the reworked tax laws post 2008

That's a big reason why Amazon has had rebates as of late

Vests expiring

Interesting didn’t hear about that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIlx6eV6P1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrrRtzJ41w

Honor explain shaolin

It's about peace from within.