Sacu Shi
Shadows of Telara
Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.10.23 06:05:03 -
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The VAST majority of goods in real life are made with profit margins in the 1 to 5% range. there are some exceptions - iPhones and suchlike.
But most companies who manufacture rely on volume to make lost of money, not small individual sales. Cans of beans at 50p in the shops probably provide only 1% profit to the manufacturer after packaging, distribution, the cut of the seller, the cut for the grower, buying the sauce, machinery to can the beans, people to watch the machines etc.
The problem you have is that your miners can look at the market price and see that if they sell themselves (which RL workers almost never do), they can make much more than you are offering.
Going back to the 1 to 5% profit thing...Why not buy the ore from your miners at 90% of Jita price and then your corp make 10% and the miner does not feel ripped off?
You refer to rl companies where the top management make lots while the workers make little and this is how you want your eve business to work. Problem is, in EVE, even those at the top are only one step up from the workers. In RL there will be many strata, all working to add value to the product before you reach the MD. Marketing (so they can sell volume), Sales (to find the customers) etc etc etc
Your workers in eve need none of that. they can sell directly to market themselves at whatever price they wish.
Perhaps treating your miners fairly (supply their ships, add an orca into the mix, fly protection for them, use TS to keep them entertained, pay them 80-90% of jita buy price for their ore or offer to ship it to jita for a % of the sale) rather than simply paying them for their time.
BTW, I run my own small business in RL, making aprox 5% profit per unit and offering my workers well above minimum wage, with bonuses and profit sharing. I am not rich and I make maybe 2x what the workers do, but I put in 90 hours a week and I drive a 2008 Pergeot. I am a capitalist at heart, but feel that if you treat your workers well and pay them well, you get more productivity and more profit because of it. And we are on track to opening another 5 shops in 2015... |