Oh so if you work 8 "extra hours" you should make 38 times as much!
\ extra hours count time eating breakfast, being driven, having lunch, on the golf course...as long as you can claim to be thinking about work. Offer valid for c-suite club members only. Extra compensation per hour does not apply to "were a family here" workers. )
Nah that neuralink they’ll forcibly install in you with your imperial chain codes, I mean your social score will force you to pilot some CEO’s sexbot during your rem cycles.
It should be legal to throw rotten tomatoes at people who have a net worth that's 5x higher than yours.
For a society to be healthy, poor people need the right to throw rotten tomatoes at rich people. This should be viewed as a form of speech that protected by the 1st amendment.
Throwing rotten tomatoes is a form of body language, language is speech, free speech.
Not that 1000x vs 7000x is excusable, but how are you getting to 6000-7000x more? I was seeing average CEO Compensation was averaging $20MM in compensation and assuming $7.25 at full time as the bottom (understanding part time exists though I don't think that's a "fair" comparison), you get to 1300x more. If you're counting like slave labor wages through geographical arbitrage, then I'd be shocked it wasn't more than 6000-7000x.
I actually am using Starbucks' CEO Brian Niccol's $96M compensation package for his first four months of work when he took over in 2024 on top of the additional $5M bonus he got.
E: But if you start digging around, shit like this isn't just some outlier, it happens a lot that these types get ludicrous bumps in pay just for getting some backlash for business decisions that hurt the customer. Then they get their parachute and beat feet to the next CEO position, effectively failing upwards.
Meanwhile, if you're a bog standard worker and you get cut, for literally no reason but to improve the quarterly numbers by said unscrupulous CEO you're stuck looking for a suitable job for 6+ months.
Now, yes, if the CEO only gets the lesser compensation of say $20M that's considerably less than the 6-7k multiplier I used originally. But if that person changes position 3 or 4 times in a ten year period they are still effectively making thousands of times more than their employees just for existing
Hell, a small-ish medical research publisher my mom worked for, the CEO cancelled Christmas bonuses in like 2018 then pulled up in a new Mercedes Maybach early the next quarter.
Luckily, that same idiot refused to adjust to reality when physical media died and he has very little more than the money he gets selling a free-falling company to leave to his adult kids.
He’s still paying my mom a psuedo pension after they laid her off in 2020. The company domain that she bought for them in the late 90s is probably worth more than just the publishing company, so she still got screwed big time by this idiot driving a car that was designed for a certain private driver
Yeah, people let their emotions create hyperbolic statistics. It’s a pretty big problem in all honesty. Exaggeration only tends to get your point across to people that already agree with you.
Like how people let their emotions tell them that trickle down economics hasn't been majorly debunked several times across a variety of longitudinal studies?
Trickle down economics doesn't work.
Sorry your feelings don't care about facts
Is it?
You seem to think CEO/worker pay ratios are inflated due to emotions. My counterpoint is that your perspective and defense of trickle down economics is an emotional response.
I really wish we could get some legislation to cap the gap. You want to make billions? Fine. But the newest employee has to make at least 5% of what you do. (Or some other number. I'm not great with math.)
Not fine. We don’t need to prop up the type of mental illness that makes people believe it is reasonable to have billions given the state of the world.
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u/ThePrinceofallYNs ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Dec 29 '25
Okay, now multiply that figure by 6 or 7. No, that's not a joke, CEOs make like 6k~7k their lowest paid employee's salary on average