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jasoncross00 t1_j9kinbe wrote

This isn't quite a win.

We have an entire class of people so fucking wealthy that they can afford to be CEO essentially for free, while becoming vastly more wealthy. It's a problem different from, but related to, excessive executive pay.

This guy, despite being "paid" 98% less in 2023, will almost certainly end the year wealthier than he began it. Ask yourself how we built a society where some people live by those rules while almost everyone else would be out on the street begging for change off the interstate.

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doubledippedchipp t1_j9kx76f wrote

Agreed with ya until the end. Hyperbolic as fuck. 21 million+ Americans have at least $1mil in net worth. Only 0.5-1mil people are homeless on any given night in America. There are 300million+ people in this country, and around 7-800 billionaires.

Surprise surprise, if you build a ridiculously profitable company which provides a widely used good/service… you’re going to be ridiculously wealthy. If you do not build such a company or provide such a good/service of high value and need… you will have to continue to earn a regular income in whatever ways you are able to do so.

What makes you think the average person should not have to produce something of high value to their community in order to achieve the capability to live as if they have a billion dollars? I’m confused.

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munchingzia t1_j9l0fk4 wrote

if i could provide a good or service that millions of people are willing to pay for, i too would be rich. but i cant. thats just the reality of the situation.

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doubledippedchipp t1_j9l11sq wrote

Wow, such logic. I don’t understand how more people don’t quite comprehend this lmao

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