Nearly 45,00
    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      293·
      16 days ago

      Good! Fight for your rights! Fuck AI!

      The workers certainly don’t agree with “Fuck AI!” It’s the AI profits they want a share of and wouldn’t mind if AI didn’t collapse once they get an agreement.

    • mrnngglry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      15 days ago

      It’ll either hurt Samsung or employees will get their fair share. I’m fine with either outcome. But also, fuck AI.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    16 days ago

    Good for them. If we’re going to live through all the stupid of an AI bubble, it’s good to see some of the insane profits making their way to the people who actually build the part and not just management and shareholders.

  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    47·
    16 days ago

    WTF… Are the numbers in this article accurate?

    “Based on 2026 profit forecasts, that translates to average payouts of $460,000 - $477,000 per worker this year across SK Hynix’s 35,000 staff, with projections approaching $900,000 per person next year.”

    So either the execs are getting billion dollar bonuses or everyone at SK Hynix will just be fucking loaded 😄

    • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      333·
      16 days ago

      Although to be fair, these numbers are most likely in Won and whatever AI wrote the article forgot that there’s other currencies than USD

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        16 days ago

        Every article I’ve read on it over the last month or so has had the same numbers. But you could still be right. Or good ol’ human error / miscommunication.

        On the other hand, there’s no way they’re only getting paid that much won

      • teohhanhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        16 days ago

        In the first quarter of 2026 its operating profit rose to 57trn won ($38bn), more than eight times as much as a year before.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          That’s all of Samsung Electronics’ profit and only the chip plant employees are included in that 45000 figure. If they’re going to share the entire company’s profits, it would be divided among 260k people. And the demand is 15% of profits to go into a bonus pool. This would be more like 42k per person if divided among everyone.

          SK Hynix employees had the advantage that they only have the super profitable memory and NAND business. Samsung also makes phones and other shit that brought in way less profit per person, as you don’t really get 80% profit margins on most products. So if it’s just the chip industry employees getting the chip industry profits, the number could be a lot higher, otherwise the chip industry employees’ generated profits are going to subsidize bonuses to everyone else as well and the amount per person will be lower.

    • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      16 days ago

      They’re probably less worried about handing the money over and more worried about all the staff fucking off immediately after recieving it. Insane profits.

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        16 days ago

        While that’s a good amount of money, it isn’t “fuck you” money. You’re still gonna need a job.

      • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        16 days ago

        Reminds me of that island where everyone was suddenly a millionaire because of the massive amounts of guano (bird shit) they were exporting

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      16 days ago

      According to this Samsung is forecasting $73 billion in profits for 2026.

      For 45,000 employees that would be a bit over $1.6 million per person.

      Now, granted, only the SK Hynix profits count and it’s only 35,000 employees, but the numbers seem to be in the right ballpark.

      That $460,000 number only seem suspiciously high to most people because we’re not use to thinking in billions and we seriously overestimate how tiny the fraction of the value they create ends up in the hands of workers in sectors like High Tech.

    • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      Also FUCK! The “Careers” entry in their footer only becomes a clickable link when you’re viewing the Korean version of the page 😭😄

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    15 days ago

    People in general seem to have a hard time grasping the notion of just how much power we all have collectively. It is why so much time and marketing goes into promoting the idea of “the individual” being the most important thing in my opinion. The more people only consider themselves the less power they have to get what they want and need.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      Divide and conquer. I think that is the real reason the US has supported independence movements that break up countries so much. It is much easier to control 1 chunk out of 5 than all 5 together.