CEO pay in the U.S. has grown exponentially since the 1970s, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), rising almost 1,000 percent compared to a rise in worker salaries of roughly 11 percent over the same time period (adjusted for inflation.)
It wasn't always this way. In 1965, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in the United States stood at about 20-to-1, according to a 2015 report by the EPI.
But starting in the 1970s up through 2014, "inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth and substantially greater than the painfully slow 10.9 percent growth in a typical worker's annual compensation over the same period." — https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-pay
The implication is that paramedics are more valuable, and therefore ought to make more. — Wosret
The fact is simply that Sri and Gopi generate more actual monetary value through revenue for their services. In order for the paramedics to do the same, they'd either have to cost more, increase efficiency and volume of clients, or government subsidies based in taxes, off of the revenues of people like Sri and Gopi. Otherwise, where would it come from? — Wosret
No, it's just cause you're really not providing a reason why this is so. It may be so - I'm not saying that it definitely isn't, I haven't studied the Hinduja group to say it isn't.Of course you don't see it. That's exactly what I expected. — Sapientia
Sapientia views these facts through a frame of theft — Thorongil
Property is theft. — Bitter Crank
Highly paid executives, receiving perhaps $40 to 100+ million dollars in compensation, are way way way more fucking thieves than the average workers — Bitter Crank
You're just pointing to something and saying it's unfair without providing an analysis for that. — Agustino
We have anti-trust laws to ensure that wealth and power aren't too concentrated within specific corporations. — ProbablyTrue
Wealth and services which workers produced. Executives do not produce. They are there to insure profitability for stockholders. — Bitter Crank
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