Worker Refuses To Take The CEO Making More Than All Workers Combined

I think there should be a law linking employees‘ wages to that of their boss. Or, in other words, the highest paid member of a company must not earn more than 10x (hourly) of what the lowest paid member gets. I don’t care about people being salty if the government interfers like that. This will NEVER get back to a normal level by itself.

Over $500,000 per day is absolutely insane. It would take me over a decade to earn what they can earn in a day, and I have a very nice and comfortable life. I consider myself very fortunate. There is no justification for earning more money than you could possibly ever spend. As a commenter said - it's performative wealth. Just making more for the purpose of massaging an ego.

This is why guillotines were invented. And should be oiled.

Eat the rich

In some jurisdictions, corporations lobbied their government on changes to tax law regarding compensation to top executives. Salaries, buy-outs, bail-outs, and other perks can be highly tax-deductible against business revenue. It's often classed as a 'business expense.' This provides an incentive for the top level to grant themselves huge pay packages and funnel money into their pockets because it drives down the companies tax bill and they can sell it to shareholders as fiscal responsibility. Of course, the same is not true for regular workers and nevermind that this makes the company a tax drain on the community.

This c**t could take 10 days pay for the entire year and still live a lavish lifestyle while his lowest paid employees are probably struggling to feed their families, pay their bills and save for retirement. There is something intrinsically evil and broken with the mentality of a person who needs more, more, more. Nobody's time is worth 100 million + a year to sit behind a desk and tell other people what to do. This POS is making more than I make in 10 years in one day, that should be a glaring social issue but I guess I just need to "work harder."

We need to seriously make these people afraid.

We do not have "unregulated capitalism". It literally does not exist. What we DO have is cronyism, created by a partnership between private industry, Democrats and Republicans. Boards of directors should, absolutely, cap CEO salaries and ensure employees are paid reasonably. Good CEOs should insist on this themselves. But there's no reasonable way to cap earnings on stocks. If an employee has 100, 000 shares and they go from $1 in value to $100 in value because the company does well, that's not something anyone can predict or control with guarantees. But if you TRULY want an end to regulatory favors that give politically well connected businesses advantages over others, you have one and only one option: Complete separation of State and Economics. Do that and companies will have no fallbacks, no bailouts, no free or cheap taxpayer funded loans, which in turn will force them to better treat those who earn them money. But be honest: you want control, not freedom.

Lots of money, bad boss. Can do make money a lot from CEO that makes more money than my money. Make bad call loses money but didn't work long but makes more money. Company loses because no money and stupid boss that lost the money.

Bunch of economic amateurs here. Keep in mind that I am a capitalist here. I vote for a completely different cap. Take the number of employees reporting directly to someone and their pay is capped at twice-number-of-employees percent higher than the average. Say I have 15 people, then I would make 1.30x the average. Want to game the system? Push through raises for the entire hierarchy below you. Can't just give a few favorites a huge raise; they'd make more than you before they'd move the average much.

New reality show idea. Set a reasonable cap and anyone who breaches that is fair game to be taken down and the poacher is immune from prosecution