And while I’m ranting
Do you ever notice how the people who will complain about unionized workers making a little (or a lot it doesn’t seem to matter) more than non-unionized workers always argue that the solution is for unionized workers to earn less?
And do you ever notice that these same people will never complain about how much CEOs make compared to… well… everyone?
Yes, the bank president has a different job than the bank teller. But is it really 240 times more demanding? I think not.
And yet, there’s nary a peep about the fact that the average CEO makes in a day what the average worker make in a year.
January 26th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
I’m glad you’ve mentioned it. You should also mention that nobody points out that these CEOs don’t actually make the products or provide the services. Yet, the work that the 99% do (ie us!!) is completely discounted. I often wonder just exactly how many PCs Bill Gates could make without employing other people to make the products. It’s part of the “Great Men” of History theory, so that it is Napoleon who invades Russia and not all the soldiers, cooks, medical staff and others involved in the expedition. In our present age, what people do, the work we actually do is not only discounted but increasingly “de-valued” because, as with the workers at Electro-Motive Diesel Plant in London, Ontario, it’s as if all the time that they have committed from their lives, the skills and expertise that they have acquired through years and years of hard work, count for LESS than when they started or even say five years earlier. It doesn’t make sense. But, then neither did Jonestown and people still drank the Kool-Aid.