From Here to There

Spreading Stock Ownership

Walter Reuther has recently posed the question of the most profitable way to distribute profits. He thinks that if more of the profit of the auto industry went to the worker and to the consumer, the economy would be better off. Unfortunately, Mr. Reuther’s rule – of – thumb proposition raises considerably more problems than it settles. Chief among these is the problem of justice. To whom does profit legitimately belong?