FORTUNE -- Earlier this week, Southwest Airlines (LUV) announced workers will share in a record $228 million profit-sharing payout this year. That's nearly double the $121 million payout a year ago, and an example to everyone of what American capitalism should be.
Southwest has a long history of broad-based cash profit sharing, broad-based employee stock ownership, and even, for many years, broad-based stock options among all of its employees. One can look at the Dallas-based airline's actions using a "small ball" perspective, and think they are simply incentives to get people to work harder, or that it's just a story about compensation. But what Southwest is really doing is setting the example of how all U.S. corporations should behave in a capitalist system that is inclusive to employees.
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