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> This escalation of CEO compensation and of executive compensation more generally has fueled the growth of top 1% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving fewer of the gains of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%.

I ignore every article that separates the top 1% from ordinary workers.

In the UK, to be in the top 1% of earners you need to earn 120K GBP gross a year, or 74K net. Don't tell me you are anything other than an ordinary worker with that. As a side note, you will also earn less net than a household of two earning 50K gross each, are they also not ordinary workers?

I don't give a single fuck about the salary of the 0.0001% of the population that is billionaire CEO, that's not the problem. The problem is that basic necessities have been turned into a profit-printing machine and you pay 2K a month for a 500 square feet apartment in London.

parent iLoveOncall 4 years ago

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