Comment by ahelwer

If you work for a large public company, it's a fun exercise to add up all the money the corporation has spent on dividends & stock buybacks for the past year (such info is publicly available) then divide it by the number of employees. You often end up with a truly staggering amount, on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per employee per year. Some might object to such extravagant handouts to people who (by a vast, vast majority) played no part in the creation of that wealth.