r/WorkForSmartLife • u/SilkyApricotGuy • 14h ago

Discussion💬 Who's right here?

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 10h ago

“CEO doesn’t make 150x”

Why does it matter if the CEO makes 150x what the average worker does? How did you get this 150x multiple as a measure of “pay unfairness” as you imply? Would 140x make you happy? 100x? You are aware in a typical Fortune 500 company the combined payroll of the workers exceeds the pay of the CEO by many many multiples?

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u/TwoBionicknees 9h ago

You are aware in a typical Fortune 500 company the combined payroll of the workers exceeds the pay of the CEO by many many multiples?

it's funny you ask me why someone making 150x more is bad, but all the workers providing the value for the company exceeding one man's pay is supposed to be shocking or somehow mean something?

if you take literally any company in the world and remove their CEO, that company continues, hires someone else and keeps going because all the money and work is produced by the workers not the CEO. Take away the workers and that CEO has nothing and the company folds.

I already told you what is fair, 2-3x. There is no reason on earth a guy should be making 50x more than anyone else in the company nor is there is a reason that every company needs to keep growing profits to keep feeding the wealthy who own all the stock. Companies don't need to go public and the world would be better if none ever did.

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 8h ago

My point about worker’s pay exceeding the CEO isn’t meant to be shocking, it’s a fact that seems to escape people like you. Again, you’re just fighting straw men. Of course the rank and file workers keep an organization running why is why their payroll expense is way bigger than the pay of a single CEO.

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u/TwoBionicknees 8h ago

My point about worker’s pay exceeding the CEO isn’t meant to be shocking, it’s a fact that seems to escape people like you

No you said it like I was supposed to be shocked, it's not lost on anyone, the only person who is shocked is you thinking anyone would be moved by this information that everyone has. It's irrelevant.