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Sure looks to me as if we've handed the country over to a few billionaire white men and Vivek.

Coach ain't gonna like that....

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I;m just glad that Airline Pilots don't practice flying like attorneys practice law and doctors practice medicine...
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It’s not….hence the multi-cultural coalition that just elected Trump to the White House.

It’s ok if you hit the reply button…we all know you don’t have us on ignore.
I'm not sure you're replying to the point he's trying to make here. That Trump gained in minority voters doesn't negate the idea that there is extreme wealth inequality.
 
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I saw a Congressman the other night reading Louis Dejoy the riot act for proposing to close the post office in some small town in his district. Around here we have post offices in Stanford and Stinesville and Helmsburg. No businessman would look at those and claim they shouldn't go away. And maybe they should. But constituent service and good business are two different things.
I saw this as well and the algorithim gave me a few more.

It's Josh Hawley. Champion of the little guy. What ****ing world are we living in where I see that jackass grilling somebody and go "yeah, get him".

Got the airline and credit cards execs pretty good too.

My assumption is the Dems were there right along side him right? Right?
 
I'm not sure you're replying to the point he's trying to make here. That Trump gained in minority voters doesn't negate the idea that there is extreme wealth inequality.
You guys still don’t get it….who made gains with working class Americans (no matter race or ethnicity)?

We even have a thread about this. Democrats have left moderate voters.
 
You guys still don’t get it….who made gains with working class Americans (no matter race or ethnicity)?

We even have a thread about this. Democrats have left moderate voters.
You'll have to ask @outside shooter what he specifically meant by his comment, but I didn't take it to mean he was talking about voting demographics. Yes, Trump gained in working class voters. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with leadership governance roles he's filling.
 
You'll have to ask @outside shooter what he specifically meant by his comment, but I didn't take it to mean he was talking about voting demographics. Yes, Trump gained in working class voters. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with leadership governance roles he's filling.
His post was about CEO pay in the country vs average worker and then compared to other countries.

Average worker moved towards the GOP. Why?
 
average pay ratio, company CEO / average company worker, 2023 stats:

Japan: 11 / 1
Germany: 12 / 1
France: 15 / 1
Italy: 20 / 1
Canada: 20 / 1
S. Africa: 21 / 1
UK: 22 / 1
Mexico: 47 / 1
Venezuela: 50 / 1
USA 475 / 1
Cool.

Now (as a renowned virologist, cancer researcher, or whatever you say you're doing for a living now), compare your salary to those who clean your labs and the hallways and post the result.
 
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Cool.

Now (as a renowned virologist, cancer researcher, or whatever you say you're doing for a living now), compare your salary to those who clean your labs and the hallways and post the result.
Wouldn't make more sense to say that he should compare the difference between his salary and the janitors with the gaps between scientists and janitors in other countries?

No one is saying CEOs shouldn't make more money. I think OS's point was that the gap between CEO pay and their employees is way bigger in the US than in other places.
 
average pay ratio, company CEO / average company worker, 2023 stats:

Japan: 11 / 1
Germany: 12 / 1
France: 15 / 1
Italy: 20 / 1
Canada: 20 / 1
S. Africa: 21 / 1
UK: 22 / 1
Mexico: 47 / 1
Venezuela: 50 / 1
USA 475 / 1
What does this matter?

When the average Mississippi resident is richer than the average Jap, German, Frenchmen, or Italian pointing to supposed inequality is meaningless. Pointing to someone else’s wealth and complaining when your standard of living in continually improving.

There are words for that. They’re called greed and jealousy.
 
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Wouldn't make more sense to say that he should compare the difference between his salary and the janitors with the gaps between scientists and janitors in other countries?

No one is saying CEOs shouldn't make more money. I think OS's point was that the gap between CEO pay and their employees is way bigger in the US than in other places.
That's cool if that's what he's thinking.

If we're gonna do that, we should also factor in the valuations of those companies by country. CEO's jobs are basically to creat shareholder value, so lets add that metric.
 
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Cool.

Now (as a renowned virologist, cancer researcher, or whatever you say you're doing for a living now), compare your salary to those who clean your labs and the hallways and post the result.
It's a helluva lot closer to 1:1 than it is to 475:1. My best guess would be about 5:1.

The point was the 475:1 number is ridiculous and far out of line with the entire world.

What I do for a living is pretty clear, asshole. I am a medicinal chemist. I have worked in pharma and academia, in many disease areas, including cancer, neurodegeneration, pain, and (most recently) antiviral drug discovery (not in the area of vaccines, but in therapeutics). IU PhD 1991.
 
It's a helluva lot closer to 1:1 than it is to 475:1. My best guess would be about 5:1.

The point was the 475:1 number is ridiculous and far out of line with the entire world.

What I do for a living is pretty clear, asshole. I am a medicinal chemist. I have worked in pharma and academia, in many disease areas, including cancer, neurodegeneration, pain, and (most recently) antiviral drug discovery (not in the area of vaccines, but in therapeutics). IU PhD 1991.
Asshole is the best you can come up with after breaking your " I have him on ignore" cover?

5:1 is kinda funny. You must be one of the most sorely underpaid Ivy league degreee holder on here.
 
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