They pay fat salaries because the talent they need is in high demand, not because they have fat profits. In any industry where that is not the case, a union is a must.

> You'll find companies like google and facebook, who are making fat profits.... pay fat salaries to their workers.

And here I was, under the impression that both Google and Facebook paid their moderators as little as possible.

> When a company loses money year after year it goes bankrupt. The company disappears. The workers lose their jobs.

If the company operates in such razor thin margins that it can't provide for sick leave for employees, something is terribly wrong.

> It is important for a company to earn a profit. You'll find companies like google and facebook, who are making fat profits.... pay fat salaries to their workers

And you'll find that most companies pay as little as they can get away with. Google and Meta need to compete to get a limited (until recently) amounts of top talent.

A railway couldn't care less about the employees.