Growth of CEO compensation (1978–2020). Using the realized compensation measure, compensation of the top CEOs increased 1,322.2% from 1978 to 2020 (adjusting for inflation). Top CEO compensation grew roughly 60% faster than stock market growth during this period and far eclipsed the slow 18.0% growth in a typical worker’s annual compensation. CEO granted compensation rose 970.2% from 1978 to 2020.
Now add in all the inflation over the years for the working class.
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
This is the problem. We shouldn't be struggling like this.
It's not that people don't want to work hard. It's that they're tired of getting breadcrumbs for their hard work. I know that I've always felt this way about it when I'd get my meezly little paychecks (after busting my butt), and then see how much of it was used for taxes. Then Every week it's, stretch stretch, stretch (and with little growth to my possessions). This is so many people's lives that are about to snap. Because, things are about to be stretched even further.
No election is going to save it.
To me, even choosing to do a months worth of work in two weeks, and then wait two more weeks before I receive that due payment is going to screw my entire system up. I *depend* on weekly overtime. As do many others.
Without it the ship sinks. No matter how "hard I work."
I don't see this going well, if ever put up on the block for companies. I don't see why any of them would turn that down.
Our pro is a more flexible schedule.
Whoopee
I 100 percent agree with, "Whatever happened to pride in our work."
I'm one, like you, who does take pride in my work. No matter how big or small the job is.
Like you I'm surrounded by people who have no pride in anything, much less their job, and so I step up my game because I have to pick up the slack.
So, we work harder, with more frustration, with no raises coming our way for our extra effort.
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That's really cool. I've never done any machine work quite like that.
So, you machined parts for the Mars rover? Wow...that's really remarkable, Schmoe. Cheers
Now add in all the inflation over the years for the working class.
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
This is the problem. We shouldn't be struggling like this.
It's not that people don't want to work hard. It's that they're tired of getting breadcrumbs for their hard work. I know that I've always felt this way about it when I'd get my meezly little paychecks (after busting my butt), and then see how much of it was used for taxes. Then Every week it's, stretch stretch, stretch (and with little growth to my possessions). This is so many people's lives that are about to snap. Because, things are about to be stretched even further.
No election is going to save it.
To me, even choosing to do a months worth of work in two weeks, and then wait two more weeks before I receive that due payment is going to screw my entire system up. I *depend* on weekly overtime. As do many others.
Without it the ship sinks. No matter how "hard I work."
I don't see this going well, if ever put up on the block for companies. I don't see why any of them would turn that down.
Our pro is a more flexible schedule.
Whoopee
(09-04-2024, 08:53 PM)Schmoe Wrote: @"FlickerOfLight"#259
I like my job mostly. We made parts for the suspension on the Mars Rover, which of course was interesting. I didn't think anything of it at the time when the customer was JPL. Which makes it all the more frustrating that the people I work with ruin it. I get it, it's a machine shop. I don't expect to work with Einsteins and Nobel laureates. But at the same time, fuck. Whatever happened to pride in your work?
I 100 percent agree with, "Whatever happened to pride in our work."
I'm one, like you, who does take pride in my work. No matter how big or small the job is.
Like you I'm surrounded by people who have no pride in anything, much less their job, and so I step up my game because I have to pick up the slack.
So, we work harder, with more frustration, with no raises coming our way for our extra effort.
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That's really cool. I've never done any machine work quite like that.
So, you machined parts for the Mars rover? Wow...that's really remarkable, Schmoe. Cheers
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