• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    27 days ago

    They don’t need to. They’re still making more each year than you or I will make in our entire lives.

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        27 days ago

        His current pay package is about $233m/yr. That’s about $112k/day. I think your math might be off. Even if you make $7.25/hr, you’ll make $112k in just over eight years. Still an absurd disparity, but not as far as you say.

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          27 days ago

          BLS lists the median annual salary as $62k. So, he does make more money in a half day than the majority of Americans make in a year. There’s no way any one person deserves that much money.