| Final-Fan said: Who do the extreme rich fuck over? Well, when I see CEOs getting paid ridiculous sums like 300 million a year, I don't believe they can possibly be doing work that's 1000 or 10000 times more valuable than other employees, and I know that most of that money COULD be going to some of those other workers, some of whom probably don't get paid as much as they deserve for the work they do. Or to the shareholders, or to the customers via savings (contributing to the competitive benefit of the company), or just to pay off debt the complany may have, or what have you. |
The CEO gets paid what the board of directors thinks he's worth, and his salary is paid for by there there profits. If they thought it was a better deal to pay someone 150 million a year, and not 300 million a year, they would. And if they were right, they would pocket the 150 million (as would all the other share holders). No one working for the company would make more money.
And just out of curiosity, why are you looking at the top of a company to improve the salaries of the workers? Shouldn't you be looking at the workers?
I am more of the mindset, that if your in a warehouse busting your ass for $7.50 an hour, and you think your underpaid, you have three choices. One is you educate yourself, the other is you look for another job doing something in your skill set for more money, and the last is just do nothing and hope the CEO or government does something for you.
Why would you leave something this important in someone else's hands? Do it yourself. If more people did, it would be harder to find someone to do that shit warehouse job, and the wage for it would go up. The only reason they pay so low, is if you quit, you could be replaced in an hour.
Find something to do, somewhere that's harder to replace, and is more value to the person paying you, and you will make more money.
There are very simple ways to improve your lot in life as a worker, so as long as those avenues are there, why look elsewhere to get it done?
