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Bravo. The absurdity of some of the highest paid people in the world calling for a revolution is really comical to an immigrant like me. Not to say that the col

by tsax 13y ago

Bravo. The absurdity of some of the highest paid people in the world calling for a revolution is really comical to an immigrant like me. Not to say that the collusion was not despicable.

dfraser992 13y ago
I was hardly very well paid - I was constantly paid late and should have been charging the assholes I was working for double my rate. Perhaps a good way to explain the problem is a) let's say I got paid $50/hr. Task A takes me 1 hour and I go and generate some work product that fulfills a customer's request. B) this customer is paying $2000 a month for their problem to be solved. You have to take into account as well the cost of the system that I built that task A is built upon, so let's say that cost $5000. So in 3 months, the cost as paid by the capitalist pig has been fully paid for, and from then on, in perpetuity, there is nothing but $2000/month in profit that goes strictly into the piggy bank of the greedy capitalist pig. Meanwhile, I don't even get paid the $50 he owes me on time. As a white collar professional who is doing _all_ the work, while capitalist pig goes on skiing vacations, this is really galling. Ok, I can quit or go work for someone else, or build my competing system (then get sued by the sociopath)... I think this shows how the pay of CEOs etc over the past 20 years has risen to astronomically insulting levels while everyone else who literally enables that is getting shafted. If the CEO does a whole lot of work, then I won't begrudge them some difference in pay. But such a difference compared to what they actually do in terms of effort? No, not when CEOs etc in general seem to be able to avoid responsibility for their screwups so easily. The system is out of balance. It really has nothing to do with the amount of money involved.

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Bravo. The absurdity of some of the highest paid people in the world calling for a revolution is really comical to an immigrant like me. Not to say that the col

by tsax 13y ago

Bravo. The absurdity of some of the highest paid people in the world calling for a revolution is really comical to an immigrant like me. Not to say that the collusion was not despicable.

dfraser992 13y ago
I was hardly very well paid - I was constantly paid late and should have been charging the assholes I was working for double my rate. Perhaps a good way to explain the problem is a) let's say I got paid $50/hr. Task A takes me 1 hour and I go and generate some work product that fulfills a customer's request. B) this customer is paying $2000 a month for their problem to be solved. You have to take into account as well the cost of the system that I built that task A is built upon, so let's say that cost $5000. So in 3 months, the cost as paid by the capitalist pig has been fully paid for, and from then on, in perpetuity, there is nothing but $2000/month in profit that goes strictly into the piggy bank of the greedy capitalist pig. Meanwhile, I don't even get paid the $50 he owes me on time. As a white collar professional who is doing _all_ the work, while capitalist pig goes on skiing vacations, this is really galling. Ok, I can quit or go work for someone else, or build my competing system (then get sued by the sociopath)... I think this shows how the pay of CEOs etc over the past 20 years has risen to astronomically insulting levels while everyone else who literally enables that is getting shafted. If the CEO does a whole lot of work, then I won't begrudge them some difference in pay. But such a difference compared to what they actually do in terms of effort? No, not when CEOs etc in general seem to be able to avoid responsibility for their screwups so easily. The system is out of balance. It really has nothing to do with the amount of money involved.