Posted on 06/27/2018 2:25:33 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Go make yourself a CEO or millionaire....
Government grants them visas for foreign workers who under cut my fucking paycheck
“people are struggling to pay...for child care”
If mom makes $X, baby sitter will want at least $X too.
If mom makes $X+, baby sitter will want at least $X+ too.
If a care giver can only take care of three kids, child care is always going to eat up about half the pay of many moms with just one, because of child care business overhead, such as FICA taxation and liability insurance.
Little kids need lots of watching.
In my youth in the 1960’s, family structure normally was dad worked and mom stayed home and watched the kids.
The only mom I knew that worked was Mrs. Fitzgerald. She was a fairly well-paid secretary. She had kids older than me who could watch her kids. What she did before when she only had really young ones, I don’t know. Perhaps a grandparent watched the kids.
Class warfare! Class warfare! Class warfare! The rallying cry of Marxists for 150 years.
“For a lot of Americans, they don’t have any savings. When they lose their job, they lose everything.”
They don’t have any savings because Barack Obama, who was taught interest was evil in Muslim madrasas, put Yellin in charge of the Federal Reserve. She promptly killed interest rates and people’s interest in saving money.
The Democratic-created unemployment insurance system is also obviously defective.
My last Christmas with the company, while all the other department managers took their employees out to lunch, my manager brought in McDonald's breakfasts for all of us..............
An employee's salary is representative of their worth to the company and if only the managers receive the bonuses, that speaks volumes about the worth of the people who work for them who receive no bonuses........
It is interesting that the comparisons are made between corporate executives and entry level employees.
I wonder what the ratio of salaries is between
Major league baseball players and the people who work in the concession stands
The top paid entertainers and the brand new stage hands or ushers
The top rock stars and the people who set up the equipment.
It’s been my experience in the 30 some odd years I have been working full time that people who complain about wealth disparity typically either made bad career choices, simply did not want to do what it takes, or just were not capable
One of the problems is that law has become very complex.
Only a limited number of people have the skill to guide a company through vast webs of laws and regulations and have business and people skills too.
These people become artificially expensive.
And big companies hire young people and others who they can pay less to undercut our business all the time.
We adapt and find ways to remain competitive by innovating or offering superior services.
Walmart employs 2.1 million people world wide.
Doug McMillian earned $22.2 million last year.
IF... the AVERAGE employee worked 20 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, that equals 1,000 hours a year average.
Multiply 1000 hours by 2.1 million people,
That’s 2.1 BILLION man hours worked
that’s about 1 cent an hour from all employees
Not enough to affect anyones pay.
Meanwhile,
McMillan oversees 11,695 stores worldwide
and makes decisions that affect 2.1 million people.
“Major league baseball players...top paid entertainers...top rock stars”
CEOs are business stars.
If leftist cities didn’t subside ballparks, athletes would have been paid less and so would CEOs.
Imagine if a couple got paid $65 million for writing some books or $50 million for hosting TV shows.
Imagine giving speeches for a few years and getting $100 million.
Would leftists object?
This is where I part ways with a lot of conservatives. I don’t trust big business. I have seen to many of them willing to sell out their workers, their company, and America to make a buck.
I know it’s anecdotal evidence but a friend of mine invited me to a luncheon for some local business leaders in our community. He himself is 2nd in charge of a medium size company in the area. I just sat back and listened and the impression that I got from these people is they would be happy with having company towns and company stores again.
But I struggle with what the answer is. I believe that capitalism is the best economic system but it has to have some controls on it.
Says you with your glorious 30 year history of doing better than others thru you superior talent and effort. I’ve made money, and lost money,had good jobs and not so good jobs and even ran my own business. Unlike you I don’t look down or judge people who are not as well off as I. Unlike you I honor honest labor and believe there is something terribly wrong when a person who works sometimes 2 or more jobs can’t get by under the current worldly system.
CEO Compensation is an issue for the Stockholders to worry about, not the rank and file Employees.
Envy is an issue for the Democrats nd Unions to promote.
Excellent point! I am renting a car at the Minneapolis airport in a couple of weeks. The rental for the car is about 350-400 dollars per week. The taxes and add on fees are about 150 dollars, I am sure some of those taxes are to
finance the various stadiums.
How many Hours would a Chinese Worker assembling iPhones have to work to make as much as Apple’s CEO?
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