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After donating $1m to Trump and axing DEI, Target CEO watches his salary get chopped in half by tariffs and angry shoppers (sinhalaguide.com)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So every single day this guy makes TWO YEARS of wages for his median worker. Every year on the job, he makes over a DOZEN LIFETIMES of wages for the median worker at his company.

Seeing the hundreds-to-one ratio shows that there's a big difference, sure, but mapping that to the time comparison really puts it into perspective. Kind of like how a million seconds is 11 days and a billion seconds is 31 god damned years.

It's never going to be a surprise that the head of a company gets paid more than the other employees, but let's not pretend that their ridiculous compensation is "what I earned" versus "what I could get away with."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Yeesh, you're exactly right that this is the right way to think about it and thank you for pointing it out that way. Absolutely disgusting, I can't believe we all allow this. I'm pretty fuckin good at math and those timescales and numbers are just not intuitive, I'm always surprised with figures like these, even though I've seen em before. If people knew, really knew this stuff, I have to believe it would change.

    Anyone "earning" like this while the people (and their families) propping up these fiefdoms sacrifice and struggle the way they're forced to - anyone doing so is de facto amoral. I'd go so far as to say deserving immediate death, no further evidence needed.

    But maybe that's the 4 beers my old ass had tonight making me feel spicy, lol.

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